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What is good governance in the context of HIV and AIDS?

Although there is no template for “success” in addressing the complexities of HIV and AIDS, there are certain supporting elements that have been identified by UNDP from best practices in Botswana, Uganda, Senegal and Thailand. Firstly, AIDS cannot and should not be tackled in isolation. Poverty and underlying environmental factors that render populations more vulnerable to dangerous behaviour and abuse need to be addressed in tandem with the pandemic.

The features of successful interventions are:

• political will, vision and leadership (practical actions that include top leadership motivating the need for prioritization and allocation of resources to HIV/AIDS)

• total mobilization of governments and civil society (generating an environment for cooperation between state and non-state actors)

• a decentralized and scaled-up response (involvement of communities at local and district levels through multi-sector, multi-level approaches)

• mobilization of adequate domestic resources (HIV/AIDS must be top of the agenda and allocation of resources to poverty reduction strategies should go in tandem with HIV/AIDS strategies)

• global support: ability to construct broad-based national strategies that could source international aid from facilities such as the Global Fund for HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Action, UNDP 2002).