A Strategic Approach Towards an AIDS-competent Society (Technical Note no.1) (UNAIDS, 2000, 9 p.): Step 3 Appointing a national facilitator for local responses to HIV/AIDS

A Strategic Approach Towards an AIDS-competent Society (Technical Note no.1) (UNAIDS, 2000, 9 p.)

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		Step 1 Creating AIDS competence
		Step 2 The development, by consensus, of a national strategy on HIV/AIDS, based on local responses
		Step 3 Appointing a national facilitator for local responses to HIV/AIDS
		Step 4 Establishing a local responses support team at district level
		Step 5 Understanding the epidemic and identifying key social groups
		Step 6 Developing local partnerships
		Step 7 Learning from action
		Step 8 Sector reforms to enhance sectoral AIDS competence
		Step 9 Encouraging the proliferation of AIDS competence

Step 3 Appointing a national facilitator for local responses to HIV/AIDS

The main task of a facilitator is to encourage feedback from lessons stemming from activities at the local level and to set up ways to exchange experiences between communities, sectors and policy makers. The facilitator will also be responsible for helping to implement the remaining steps of the strategy listed below.