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Planning a national HIV/AIDS program at scale is critical to implementing an effective program. Scaling up requires that many sectors work together to develop the plan and commit their resouorces to the implementation of program activities. The advantage of multisectoral planning is that the process creates the partnerships through whihc activies will be carried out.

Planning and implementing HIV/AIDS programs occu in four stages: (1) the strategy stage, where a country collects baseline data and defines its national goal, (2) the stage of creating partnerships, designing activities, and allocating resources to achieve the goal, (3) the capacity-building stage, and (4) the day-to-day implementation of activities and the institutionalization of processes and systems. this manual is invaluable to those responsible for the second stage.

The manual is intended for anyone involved in planning national HIV/AIDS programs (such as staff of ministries of health, consulting groups, and international agencies). It includes tips for facilitators of the national planning process and can be used at the regional as well as the national level. Examples from Tanzania and other countries bring the process to life.

• Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Programs explains in detail how to determine resource needs and provides templates for defining needs in all the areas related to HIV/AIDS (such as medicines, supplies, equipment, training, and construction) and for calculating the associated costs and creating budgets.
• The process will also yield plans and working groups in areas such as human capacity development, operations research, and monitoring and evaluation.
• The planning includes a coordination mechanism a set of objectives with indicators that will support the implementation and tracking of the national plan.