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PASCO Made Progress On HIV In Belize
posted (March 20, 2014)
USAID AND PACSA today officially closed a 5 Year Project in Belize. During that time, the group worked with the National AIDS Commission and its local counterparts to strengthen the national and institutional response to HIV in Belize. PACSA's representative from Guatemala discussed the meaningful progress made:..

Giovanni Melendez, Programme specialist HIV/ADS - USAID Guate.
"This program is a regional program covering 7 countries and in the last 5 years we had been implementing actions in Belize related to: 1) Strategic information, to collect, gather and to encourage data related to HIV/AIDS."

Joan Burke, Vice-Chair National AIDS Commission
"There were 22 persons trained in monitoring and evaluation, so we have now 22 persons who we can call upon when we want to embarked on the monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects."

Giovanni Melendez
"To have now one strategic plan to have 2011 measurement of expenditures related to HIV/AIDS - to have the mounts of transmission models, those are concrete results that had been possible with the support of USAID/PASCA."

Joan Burke
"And of course there are so much more that the project has contributed to the national response and being able to help us in terms of implementing our national strategic plan."

Giovanni Melendez
"And also one of the key elements of the project is the continue strengthening of the civil society organizations. We need to improve many of the management and technical abilities of the civil society's organizations in order to improve the quality of the response of HIV in Belize."

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