WATAG hosted the third meeting of the West Africa Regional Advisor Committee in October in Ghana in which the Regional Advisory Committee decided the regional funding priorities for the sixth grant cycle and set up a 2010-2011 workplan. Advocacy is considered a priority with defined areas such as for access to treatment, for better funding by the Global Fund and Government Commitment, and for scaling up of prevention of vertical transmission in rural areas. RACs were tasked to prepare updates on HIV infection trends in each of the coverage countries, challenges in term of access to treatment, funding scenarios and where each of the countries is achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
RACs also decided not to renew a contract with RIP+, to find a new fiscal agency in Cote d’Ivoire and to rotate 2/3 RAC membership and recruit all new two-year-term CRP membership.
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