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Botswana report summary
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Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Global HIV/AIDS. ; United States. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Global HIV/AIDS. ; United States. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Less -
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As the U.S. science-based public health and disease prevention agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plays an important role in implementing the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) under the direction of the Department of State Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. CDC uses its technical expertise in public health science and long-standing relationships with Ministries of Health across the globe to work side-by-side with countries to build strong national programs and sustainable public health systems that can respond effectively to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. All CDC global HIV/AIDS PEPFAR-related activities are implemented by the Division of Global HIV/AIDS (DGHA) in CDC’s Center for Global Health. CDC/DGHA launched the Country Management and Support (CMS) initiative in 2011 to identify any challenges resulting from the rapid scale-up of complex PEPFAR/CDC programming as part of CDC’s commitment to transparency and accountability. This initiative serves as a basis for ongoing, monitored quality improvement of CDC/DGHA’s programs and operations through internal programmatic and financial oversight. CMS is a proactive response on the part of CDC to ensure that CDC/DGHA is supporting the Presidential Initiatives, Department of State, and Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. The CMS strategy is designed to assess CDC/DGHA’s accountability in the following key areas: Intramural Resources: Ensuring proper management and stewardship of financial resources, property, and human resources within CDC’s overseas offices; Extramural Funding: Ensuring responsible and accurate management of financial and other resources external to CDC’s overseas offices; Public Health Impact: Ensuring the delivery of consistently high quality interventions and technical assistance that positively impact the populations the program serves.

Botswana Country Management and Support Visit: CDC conducted a CMS visit to the CDC country office in Botswana from January 23-27, 2012. The principal objectives of this CMS visit were to: Perform a CDC/DGHA headquarters assessment of internal controls in the field to ensure the highest level of accountability; Provide clear feedback and support to the country office to improve current internal controls; Refine, systematize, and modify CMS methodologies, processes, and associated tools for full implementation during future CMS visits across all CDC/DGHA-supported programs in the field.

CDC headquarters (CDC/HQ) in Atlanta, Georgia assembled an intra-agency multidisciplinary team of twelve experts to perform the CMS assessment in the following areas: country management and operations, program budget and extramural management, grants management, financial management, and key technical program areas (e.g., surveillance, informatics). One staff member from CDC’s Center for Global Health (CGH) was also a part of the team and evaluated CDC non-DGHA programs in-country. In addition, the Chief Financial Officer for CDC joined the team for a concurrent visit to the U.S. Embassy to Botswana and the CDC office in Botswana, while also using the visit to evaluate the CMS process itself.


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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/Prevention & Control/Botswana HIV Infections/Prevention & Control/Botswana International Cooperation Program Development/Botswana Public Health/Botswana
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Report
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Botswana
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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urn:sha256:9c224c635fa1f441a13d7619ed2c55b452831fe8b9cc625392dc98fe3f0ab5fe
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