POPLINE Document Number: 276698
Corporate Author(s):
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS [UNAIDS]
United States. Agency for International Development [USAID]
Futures Group International. POLICY Project
Source citation:
Geneva, Switzerland, UNAIDS, [2001]. 24 p.
Abstract:
UNAIDS, USAID and the POLICY Project have developed the AIDS Programme Effort Index (API) to measure programme effort in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The index is designed to provide a profile that describes national effort and the international contribution to that effort. The API was applied to 40 countries in 2000. The results show that programme effort is relatively high in the areas of legal and regulatory environment, policy formulation and organizational structure. Political support was somewhat lower but increased the most from 1998. Monitoring and evaluation and prevention programmes scored in the middle range, about 50 out of 100 possible points. The lowest rated components were resources and care. The API also measured the availability of key prevention and care services. Overall, essential services are available to about half of the people living in urban areas but to only about one-quarter of the entire population. International efforts to assist country programmes received relatively high rating in all categories except care. The results presented here will be supplemented later in 2001 with a new component on human rights. (excerpt)
Keywords:
Developing CountriesIndex page
Summary Report
Policymakers
Program Evaluation
AIDS Prevention
HIV Prevention
Treatment
Evaluation Indexes
Evaluation Methodology
UNAIDS
USAID
Administrative Personnel
Organization and Administration
Programs
AIDS
HIV Infections
Viral Diseases
Diseases
Quantitative Evaluation
Evaluation
UN
International Agencies
Organizations
Government Agencies