Progress on the Implementation of DFID's HIV/AIDS Strategy - International Development Committee Contents


TERMS OF REFERENCE

THE INFORMAL CROSS-WHITEHALL GROUP ON TACKLING HIV AND AIDS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

OBJECTIVES

  1.  To support implementation of "Achieving Universal Access: The UK's strategy for halting and reversing the spread of HIV in the developing world" by monitoring the commitments set out in the strategy, in line with the plans set out in the associated monitoring and evaluation document.

  2.  To exchange information about policy initiatives and directions related to Achieving Universal Access and other related issues.

  3.  To identify opportunities for closer co-operation across departments to maintain UK and International political momentum, provide briefing, and consider new policy directions.

  4.  Where necessary and appropriate, explore and resolve issues of potential incoherence between domestic and international policies relating to HIV and AIDS. These issues can be proposed by members of the group, or by external stakeholders (eg civil society, parliamentary committees).

  5.  Where appropriate ensure coherence with other related HMG policies and strategies and seek opportunities to exploit synergies between them.

  6.  To link with existing Whitehall coordination mechanisms including the Access to Medicines Working Group, and the Government's Global Health Strategy, "Health is Global".

MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS

    — The Secretariat for the Cross-Whitehall Working Group on tackling HIV and AIDS in developing world will be provided by DFID.

    — The Group will meet up to 4 times each year, with those Departments who have made explicit commitments in Achieving Universal Access. One of these meetings will include representatives from a wider group of Departments.






 
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