IIM Training: Managerial Challenges in HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Programmes

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IIM Ahmedabad

Managerial Challenges in HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Programmes

Program Directors: Tejas Desai & K.V.Ramani

December 26-30, 2005

Fees: Rs. 35,000 (US$ 1000 for participants from other countries)

Objectives: The spread of HIV/AIDS is not merely a problem of public

health; it is also an economic, political, and social challenge that

threatens to hinder decades of progress in different parts of the

world. Indicators of human development like life expectancy at

birth, child mortality, literacy, and food production are slipping

as AIDS ravages families, communities, economies, and health systems

in the countries that are most heavily affected by this epidemic.

Although global spending on AIDS prevention and control programmes

has increased from US$ 300 million in 1996 to US $5 billion in 2003,

it is less than the amount currently needed (2005) to combat the

illness in the developing world.

India has the largest number of people living with HIV outside South

Africa. Out of the 6.5 million HIV/AIDS victims in South and South

East Asia, as many as 5.1 million live in India.

There is an urgent need to significantly scale-up public health

interventions that work (both in terms of coverage and quality) to

make a meaningful impact. While NGOs and community-based

organizations have a critical role to play in implementing these

interventions amongst the various population groups, the government

must shoulder the overall responsibility for planning, coordinating,

mobilizing, and facilitating the various HIV/AIDS prevention, care,

and treatment services in the country.

The entire programme has to adopt a more holistic approach; HIV/AIDS

must be considered as a developmental problem and not merely as an

issue of public health. Above all, adequate commitment on the

administrative, political, and social fronts is crucial for HIV/AIDS

prevention and control programmes. Capacity building should

therefore be aimed at supporting the HIV/AIDS programme

administrators and managers in policy, planning, implementation, and

monitoring activities on a regular and sustai-nable basis.

For: Overall planning and evaluation of HIV programmes will need

considerable management skills. Generally, the departments of public

health in India are dominated by doctor-managers who lack training

in management. Thus, in order to make HIV programming and

implementation effective, it is necessary to upgrade the management

skills and capacities of not only the various state and district

level managers belonging to the departments of health, but also the

workers of the NGOs involved in HIV programmes. The target audience

for this MDP includes the following: -

• Senior Programme Managers

• Decision/Policy Makers

• Programme/Project Coordinators (NGOs, Government)

• Technical Staff (Doctors, Paramedics, and Other Service

Providers)

• Other Institutions

Content: Topics to be covered in the MDP include: -

• Logical Framework Analysis

• Organization Structure

• Finance and Management Control Systems

• Epidemiology and Statistical Analysis

• IEC and Behavioral Change Communication

• Service Quality Management

• Management Information Systems

For further information, please contact: -

Manager (MDA),

Indian Institute of Management,

Vastrapur, Ahmedabad - 380 015.

Tel: 91-79-632 4071-5/630 7241

Fax: 91-79-630 0352 (MDP); 630 6896 (General)

Email: mdp@...

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