INVESTMENTS

INVESTMENTS


The total project cost of setting up the Aklan HIV/AIDS Program amounted to over Php 2.2 M. The breakdown of investments is shown in figure below:


COST OF INVESTMENT

Enhancement of management systems/organization
Php 606,695.75

Capacity-building
Php 1,010,481.45
Facilities/Supplies
Php 634,840.00

Capacity-Building. From 2005 until the early part of 2006, UNFPA-TAP Aklan launched a retooling program among Health Service Providers skills in order to upscale program response to HIV/AIDS. The capability-building program claimed the biggest share of the budget --- Php 1,010,481.45.

The activities conducted under the capability-training program were:

HIV/AIDS Core Team Specialization Training
Orientation on Republic Act 8504 for:
Rural Sanitary inspectors
Provincial Legislators
Media practitioners
Hospital-based Nurses
Boracay establishment staff and owners

Training of Trainers of program partners:
· Butterfly Brigade
· Adolescent organization
· People Living with HIV/AIDS (ARV scholars)
ARV Literacy and Advanced Counseling
Orientation on Safe Sex Strategies and HIV/AIDS for Commercial Sex workers
Orientation on HIV/AIDS for OFW Wives
Youth Camp


Upgrading of Facilities and Procurement of Supplies. Through this program, the following medical and laboratory supplies, amounting to Php 634,840.00 have been procured:

Franchising of the POPSHOP Project (A DKT-International Project for the provision of contraceptive supplies at minimal cost)
Initial supply of reagents for the Voluntary Counseling, Screening and Testing centers (VCST)
Initial procurement of STI medicines
Anti-Retroviral medicines
Refurbishing of 2 facilities or VCST centers (voluntary counseling and screening tests).


Enhancement of Organizational/Management systems, including Advocacy Work. The expenses claimed by this program area amounted to Php 606,695.75 and were spent for the following activities:

Consultations, planning – national and local level
Advocacy meetings with business groups and program partners
Sponsorship of special events – World AIDS, World Population Day, Women’s Month
Sponsorship of Regional Consultative planning and Network Building in Region 6
Documentation/production of information materials