Program Data Sheet
596-008
USAID MISSION: Central America Regional
PROGRAM TITLE: Regional HIV-AIDS (Pillar: Global Health)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Enhanced Central America Capacity to Respond to the HIV/AIDS Crisis - Phase II, 596-008
STATUS: New
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $4,750,000 (CSH)
PRIOR YEAR UNOBLIGATED AND FUNDING SOURCE: $0
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: : $6,785,000 (DA)
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2001 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2007
Summary: The USAID Regional HIV-AIDS Program for Central America focuses on three components:
- technical assistance for the implementation of appropriate HIV/AIDS policies and strategic plans at the regional and national levels;
- technical and material support for the implementation of improved prevention, support systems for consistent condom use, and other services to reach high-risk populations and expand nontraditional distribution; and
- support for an effective regional condom social marketing effort to increase overall awareness and condom use in the Central American region.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: USAID proposes to increase planned funding by more than 10% of the amount notified in the FY 2002 Congressional Budget Justification. USAID will use FY 2002 CSH (child survival and health) resources for technical and financial assistance for strategic alliance building and proactive information dissemination for advocacy and policy dialogue. The program will also support community-based planning in municipalities with rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemics and where mobile populations converge. It will strengthen local capacity through training, targeted technical assistance, and by facilitating the exchange of experiences, information, skills, and resources across countries. The program will continue to support the regional Condom Social Marketing (CSM) effort currently being implemented. In the period FY 2002-2006, funding will be obligated through AIDSMark, a project within USAID's Global Health Bureau that uses social marketing to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
| SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSTITUTES FORMAL RENOTIFICATION OF USAID'S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 RESOURCES FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE. |
Planned FY 2003 Program: FY 2003 DA resources will continue to strengthen strategic alliances, information dissemination for advocacy and policy dialogue, and community-based program planning activities. Funds will also support the continuation of the CSM activity. Several new activities are being designed to start implementation in late FY2003. (1) HIV/AIDS Care and Support: USAID plans to use FY 2003 funds for care and support, based on analysis of Agency lessons learned identifying this as an important emerging challenge that needs to be addressed. As the large pool of HIV-infected Central Americans progress to the AIDS disease stage, there will be an increasing need for effective care and support of AIDS patients and impact mitigation on the people close to them. The regional program will contribute through training, technical assistance, networking and information dissemination of best practices. (2) Surveillance/Data for Decision Making: USAID plans to use FY 2003 funds to support this activity, which is being designed in FY2002 with assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More emphasis will be placed on analysis and proactive dissemination of surveillance data. (3) Stepped-up regional assistance to address country needs: USAID plans to use FY 2003 funds to implement high-impact programs for basic countries and to address "hot-spots" and high priority populations across the region, so as to contain expansion of the epidemic.
Performance and Results: This program will begin in 2002 and assist Central American organizations in delivering HIV/AIDS services and information, supporting the adoption of HIV/AIDS legislation in countries in the region, and fostering strategic alliances to promote policy, access to treatment, surveillance, and the incorporation of the private sector in this effort.
Over the life of this program, depending on funding levels, this activity will improve HIV/AIDS health policies, strengthen local organizations and expand the exchange of appropriate methodologies and information. Specific targets are being established with partners. By completion of the strategy, USAID anticipates that the program will contain the dissemination of the virus within the region.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: The Academy for Educational Development implements the strategic alliance building, information dissemination for advocacy and policy dialogue, and the community-based program planning activities, under the acronym of PASCA (Proyecto Acción SIDA de Centroamérica-AIDS Action Program in Central America). The contraceptive social marketing component is known as PASMO (Pan-American Social Marketing Organization, also the name of the Central American nonprofit association that was created) and is being assisted by Population Services International (PSI). The CSM component will be continued after April 2002 through a USAID field support mechanism, the AIDSMark project, implemented by PSI. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a collaborating federal agency.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
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596-008 Enhanced Central America Capacity to Respond to HIV/AIDS Crisis - Phase II | CSD | CSH | DA |
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Through September 30, 2000
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| Obligations | 0 | 0 |
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| Expenditures | 0 | 0 |
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| Unliquidated | 0 | 0 |
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Fiscal Year 2001
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| Obligations | 2,572 | 0 |
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| Expenditures | 64 | 0 |
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Through September 30, 2001
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| Obligations | 2,572 | 0 |
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| Expenditures | 64 | 0 |
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| Unliquidated | 2,508 | 0 |
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Prior Year Unobligated Funds
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| Obligations | 0 | 0 |
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Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA
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| Obligations | 0 | 4,750 |
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Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002
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| Obligations | 0 | 4,750 |
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Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA
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| Obligations | 0 | 0 | 6,785
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| Future Obligations | 0 | 0 | 715
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| Est. Total Cost | 2,572 | 4,750 | 7,500
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