Jamaica Second HIV/AIDS Project

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The Second HIV/AIDS Project for Jamaica development objectives are to assist in the implementation of the Government's National HIV/AIDS Program by supporting the: (i) deepening of prevention interventions targeted at high risk groups and the general population; (ii) increasing of access to treatment, care and support services for infected and affected individuals; and (iii) strengthening of program management and analysis to identify priorities for building the capacity of the health sector to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and other priority health problems. The project components are following: (i) prevention will support scaling up of HIV/AIDS prevention interventions to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS; (ii) treatment, care and support will provide financing to strengthen the diagnostic capacity, enhance services (HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV) and support for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS; (iii) strengthening institutional capacity will support policy formulation for an enabling legal and regulatory environment, program management and monitoring and evaluation; and (iv) health sector development support will support: (a) strengthening of biomedical waste management and (b) capacity assessment for the health sector.