The Program is designed and supervised by the National AIDS Control Committee (NACC).

The Central Technical Group (CTG) ensures the coordination and management of the Program throughout the national territory, in collaboration with the relevant administrations, national and international partners. It also provides the permanent secretariat of the National AIDS Control Committee.

The Program's activities are carried out through the following components:

• Support to the local response;
• Support to the health sector response;
• Support for the development and implementation of sectoral strategies;
• Support to partnerships;
• Planning, research, epidemiological surveillance and monitoring-evaluation;
• Coordination and resource mobilization.

The program's activities are carried out through the following five components:

• Support to the local response;
• Support to the health sector response;
• Support to coordination;
• Support to Monitoring and Evaluation;
• Support for the development and implementation of sectoral strategies;

Program Implementation Structure

The coordination and implementation structures of the Program are:

• The National AIDS Control Committee (NACC);
• The Regional AIDS Control Committee (CRLS);

The implementing bodies are:

• The Central Technical Group (CTG);
• The Regional Technical Groups (GTR);

Program Objectives

The multisectoral HIV/AIDS control program's overall objective is to support the implementation of the national AIDS control strategy. Specifically, the Program contributes to:

• reducing HIV transmission in the general population and high-risk groups through effective and efficient prevention measures;
• improving the quality of life of PLHIV through better comprehensive care;
• reducing the socio-economic impact of the disease on people living with HIV, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and other affected people;
• providing technical support to partners involved in the sectoral response;
• strengthening social mobilization and ownership of the fight by all actors;
• strengthening health and community systems to sustain interventions;
• strengthening coordination, resource mobilization and management of the national response;
• strengthening the availability of strategic information and its appropriate use for decision-making and improving interventions.