Table 3.
National commitment and action: millennium development goal indicators.
| Status in Trinidad and Tobago |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | NA | |
| A. Strategic plan | ✓ | ||
| 1. Country has developed multisectoral strategies to combat HIV/AIDS | ✓ | ||
| 2. Country has integrated HIV/AIDS into its general development plan | ✓ | ||
| 3. Country has a functional national multisectoral HIV/AIDS management/coordination body | ✓ | ||
| 4. Country has a functional national HIV/AIDS body that promotes interaction among government, the private sector and civil society | ✓ | ||
| 5. Country has a functional HIV/AIDS body that assists in the coordination of civil society organizations | ✓ | ||
| 6. Country has evaluated the impact of HIV/AIDS on its socioeconomic status for planning purposes | ✓ | ||
| 7. Country has a strategy that addresses HIV/AIDS issues among its national uniformed services (including armed forces and civil defence forces) | Part of overall strategy | ||
| B. Prevention | |||
| 1. Country has a general policy or strategy to promote IEC on HIV/AIDS | ✓ | ||
| 2. Country has a policy or strategy promoting reproductive and sexual health education for young people | ✓ | ||
| 3. Country has a policy or strategy that promotes IEC and other health interventions for groups with high or increasing rates of HIV infection | ✓ | ||
| 4. Country has a policy or strategy that promotes IEC and other health interventions for cross-border migrants | ✓ | ||
| 5. Country has a policy or strategy to expand access, including among vulnerable groups, to essential preventative commodities | ✓ | ||
| 6. Country has a policy or strategy to reduce MTCT | ✓ | ||
| C. Human rights | |||
| 1. Country has laws and regulations that protect against discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS | Laws under assessment | ||
| 2. Country has laws and regulations that protect against discrimination of groups of people identified as being especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS | Laws under assessment | ||
| 3. Country has a policy to ensure equal access for men and women to prevention and care, with emphasis on vulnerable groups | Laws under assessment | ||
| 4. Country has a policy to ensure that HIV/AIDS research protocols involving human subjects are reviewed and approved by an ethics committee | ✓ | ||
| D. Care and support | |||
| 1. Country has a policy or strategy to promote comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and support with emphasis on vulnerable groups | ✓ | ||
| 2. Country has a policy or strategy to ensure or improve access to HIV/AIDS-related medicines, with emphasis on vulnerable groups | ✓ | ||
| 3. Country has a policy or strategy to address the additional needs of orphans and other vulnerable children | Under review | ||
Source: Adapted from Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: Core Indicators' Revision (UNAIDS 2002:5–13). http://data.unaids.org/Topics/M-E/merg8_ungass-core-indicators_en.pdf