African Regional Meeting on Pilot Projects for the Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV, Gaborone (UNAIDS, 2000, 58 p.): OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF MEETING

African Regional Meeting on Pilot Projects for the Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV, Gaborone (UNAIDS, 2000, 58 p.)

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		ACRONYMS
		INTRODUCTION
		OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF MEETING
		METHODS OF WORK
		SESSION 1: OPENING
		SESSION 2: TECHNICAL UPDATES
		SESSION 3: SHARING OF COUNTRY EXPERIENCES
		SESSION 4: PROGRAMME AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
		SESSION 5: LESSONS LEARNED AND EMERGING ISSUES
		SESSION 6: FIELD VISITS
		SESSION 7: ISSUES REVISITED
		SESSION 8: MONITORING AND EVALUATION
		SESSION 9: THE WAY FORWARD
		SESSION 10: SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
		SESSION 11: CLOSING
		ANNEX 1: LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
		ANNEX 2: SUMMARY OF INTERVENTIONS IN PILOT PROJECTS - MARCH 2000

OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF MEETING

The objectives of the meeting were: to share experiences and lessons learned in the PMTCT pilot projects; to identify the major challenges encountered in the pilots and attempt to address them; to strengthen key components of projects on selected issues, e.g. communication, VCT, infant feeding, selection of tests and drugs, care and support for HIV-infected women and their children; to strengthen and coordinate monitoring and evaluation, and plan for documentation of the pilot projects in order to stimulate adaptation in other settings; to identify further needs for technical support, networking and guidelines; to explore how to scale-up the projects within pilot countries and how to initiate implementation in other countries.

The expected outputs included: participants to be briefed on progress in PMTCT pilot projects; project presentations, especially the report of the evaluation of the Botswana pilot project, to be compiled for documentation of PMTCT pilot project Best Practices collection; major problems in pilot projects to be identified, discussed and solutions proposed; key project components to be strengthened, based on shared experiences and technical input; plans to be strengthened for project monitoring, evaluation and documentation of pilot projects; plans to be developed for future technical assistance, regional networking and guidelines; timelines to be developed for scaling up within pilot countries and other countries.