MIN/Sp/AU/CAMH3/6 HIV/AIDS Page 5 2.2 METHODS The main source of data for this report (HIV section) is country reports based on the WHO and UNAIDS frameworks on monitoring the health sector response towards Universal Access for HIV prevention, care, and treatment. Of the 46 countries in the WHO African Region, 35 have submitted a standard reporting form for monitoring the health sector response. These data will be validated and reconciled with other global reporting mechanisms, such as UNGASS. Additional source of information is the PMTCT card (UNICEF/IATT) The WHO reporting form is designed to collect 27 indicators which cover availability, coverage and outcome/impact, of priority HIV interventions. Since a global report on health sector response will be launched during the World Health Assembly in May 2008, this progress report will not discuss all indicators but rather highlights important milestones since May 2006 on priority interventions in HIV and AIDS. 3. FINDINGS 3.1 Leadership, Partnerships, and Resource Mobilization In response to adopted Resolution AFR/RC55/R6, under the auspices of the African Union, the member states launched the campaign to accelerate the HIV prevention strategies and interventions in Addis Ababa in April 2006. Consequently, countries responded by putting in place a number of initiatives, based on their local context. This initiative catalyzed important HIV prevention achievements in many countries in the region. Interventions that received substantial boost from this initiative are HTC and PMTCT. In recent years, multilateral organizations have increased their HIV support. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria currently provides 20% of all funding for HIV/AIDS. The success rate of Round 7 proposals for HIV in this region was about 60% (10 out of 17)—which is considered to be the best year in this region. It has continued to expand grants allocated for HIV prevention, care and treatment programmes in recent years, and was successful in securing commitments for increased investment from donor countries in 2007 Through a CIDA grant of about 30 million (Canadian $), WHO is supporting 10 high HIV prevalence countries in the region to scale up PMTCT services to selected districts. This grant is intended to supplement the ongoing efforts to improve access of PMTCT services within the context of the broader family health domain. Besides the global partnerships, such as GFATM and PEPFAR, several smaller partnerships are mushrooming at country levels. A good example of this is the UNITAID’s partnership with African countries to contribute to scaling up access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by leveraging quality drug and diagnostic price reductions and accelerating the pace at which these are made