last year, provides a promising road map, but as always, the critical question is whether the Department of Health has the capacity and commitment to do what is needed to implement the strategy.The Covid-19 pandemic has put significant pressure on already scarce resources for health, especially in provincial health departments.
Will significantly more people, especially young women, have access to HIV prevention pills in the public health sector by end 2021?to make HIV prevention pills widely available in the public healthcare system. These plans were temporarily scuppered by the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated disruption of healthcare services. Whether these plans are fully implemented by the end of 2021 will give us a good idea of just how committed government is to preventing new HIV infections.
Will the development of SA’s new HIV and TB plan be a damp squib, or will it catalyse a more effective TB and HIV response? South Africa’s National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STIs 2017 – 2022 expires next year and work on a new NSP will start this year . The development of a new NSP, in theory, provides a useful opportunity for healthcare workers, researchers, policy-makers, civil society and others to come to a shared understanding of our HIV and TB challenges and what to do about it.
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