INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION IN AIDS CONTROL IN ETIHIOPIA

Abstract

Throughout the world, AIDS Control Programmes are confronting the need for Inter-sectoral Collaboration. The very nature of AIDS requires that control and prevention activities take cognizance of factors as diverse yet interconnected as a country's economic and employment picture; literacy level; behavioral practices; religious and societal values; medical services available; healing traditions; sexual norms; status of women; etc. With such a complex of related factors, no Ministry of Health alone can hope to fmd all the solutions. A united and comprehensive approach is necessary .Resolutions and strategies abound which urge such an approach, but experience in establishing such linkages is rare. Nevertheless, Ethiopia has been notably successful in fostering a workable mode of collaboration and today, the cooperative nature of the ACP is clearly evident.