Nepal HIV Investment Plan lays out areas where the country will strategically focus its resources to fight HIV in the next three years. Within the framework of ´Nepal National HIV Strategy 2011-2016´, the Investment Plan crystallizes ´Getting to Zero´ as a joint venture between the Government of Nepal, civil society, and external development partners.[break]
“We are proud of the progress we have made over the last decade to slow down Nepal´s HIV burden,” said Dr Tirtharaj Burlakoti, chief of Policy, Planning, and International Cooperation at Nepal´s Ministry of Health and Population, at the presentation of the plan, in Kathmandu. “Too often resources are stretched so thinly that they are unable to make impact. This plan will help ensure valuable resources are spent where they can make the most difference for Nepal,” he said.
Nepal´s HIV Investment Plan also calls for strategic investments for full engagement and partnerships with HIV competent communities to implement HIV programs and strategies of a scope, scale, intensity, speed and quality to indeed achieve the zeros.
Director of Nepal´s National Centre for AIDS and STD Control, Dr Naresh Pratap KC stressed on the importance of meaningful involvement of HIV affected communities in the development of the plan, who provided “crucial information and insights into the state of Nepal´s HIV burden, and how we must invest to reduce it.
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