IIM Ahmedabad

Managerial Challenges in HIV/AIDS Programmes
Program Director: Prof. K. V. Ramani
February 18-22, 2008
At IIM Ahmedabad
Fees: Rs. 40,000 per participant from India & other SAARC countries
US $ 1,250 for participant from non-SAARC countries

Objectives: There is an urgent need to significantly scale-up public health interventions that work (both in terms of coverage and quality) to make a meaningful impact. While NGOs and communitybased organizations have a critical role to play in
implementing these interventions amongst the various population groups, the government must shoulder the overall responsibility for planning, coordinating, mobilizing, and facilitating the various HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services in the country. The entire program has to adopt a more holistic approach; HIV/AIDS must be considered as a developmental problem and not merely as an issue of public health. Above all, adequate commitment on the administrative, political, and social fronts is crucial for HIV/AIDS prevention, control, and treatment programs. Capacity building should therefore be aimed at supporting the HIV/AIDS program administrators and managers in policy, planning, implementation, and monitoring activities on a regular and sustainable basis.

For: Overall planning and evaluation of HIV programs will need considerable management skills. Generally, the departments of public health in India are dominated by doctor-managers who lack training in management. Thus, in order to make HIV programming and implementation effective, it is necessary to upgrade the management skills and capacities of not only the various state and district level managers belonging to the departments of health, but also the workers of the NGOs involved in HIV programs. The target audience for this program includes the following: -