COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES IN HIV AND TB PROGRAMMING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AT DISTRICT LEVEL

The achievement of the objectives of the HIV, AIDS, STIs and TB (HAST) and community outreach services (COS) business plans relies on effective working relationships between different stakeholders. Therefore, optimising communication between key stakeholders such as financial and HAST programme managers is necessary for optimal planning and achieving district-level objectives. This brief presents the communication-specific outcomes of engagements conducted to understand bottlenecks to HAST business planning faced by districts for their HIV, AIDS, STIs, TB and COS Conditional Grants.