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November and December 2020 Monthly Meeting Held Under High Presidency of Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, presided over the November and December 2020 monthly meeting organized, via BlueJeans video conference, by the Authority on the morning of Wednesday, 30 December 2020. Participating in the meeting were Excellencies and Lok Chumteavs, the vice chairs, director of cabinet, secretary general, deputy secretaries general, and advisors as well as meeting room assistants and ladies, gentlemen, and misses, the directors and deputy directors of departments, heads and deputy heads of offices, and officials in a total number of 50 attendees.

The purpose of the meeting was to:

- Listen to the updated report on the activities undertaken by the top management and Secretariat General of the National AIDS Authority.

- Learn of the epidemic situation and HIV response and intervention goals.

- Be informed of the achievements and impediments that arose while implementing and devising the action plan for 2021.

To begin, His Excellency the Senior Minister welcomed all the public servants present at the meeting and informed them of the meeting process to be conducted according the following agenda:

I) Presentation of the summary report on the work activities carried out by the top management and Secretariat General in November and December 2020 made by H.E. the Secretary General.

II) Presentation of the coordination for the implementation of 2021 activities presented by H.E. Tia Phalla.

III) Comments by His Excellency the Senior Minister.

I) Presentation of work activities undertaken by the top management and Secretariat General

1- Achieved work activities

· Having organized the 11^th Technical Council meeting.

· Having organized the weekly, annual meetings.

· Having prepared the reports on the Second Plenary Meeting and Congress as well as the annual report.

· Having prepared the action plan and budget of the NAA Secretariat General for 2021.

· Having developed the package of guidance on the prevention of HIV pandemic.

· Having prepared abbreviations related to HIV and AIDS.

· Having organized Global Fund project training.

· Having closed the accounts of expenditures of the national budget and Global Fund of 2020.

2- Challenges

· The COVID-19 situation continues to affect implementing the HIV/AIDS response activities.

· New expenditure procedures affect the fund withdrawal, such as the amount of funding rounds is still minimal.

· There is still no corroboration of the procedures on expenses for domestic missions, meetings, workshops, and training.

· The budget of the (2021-2023) fund project has not yet patently specified the withdrawal.

II) Presentation of the coordination for the implementation of 2021 activities presented by H.E. Tia Phalla.

· The implementation of Notification #213 Sor Chor Nor Sor Sor, issued to all the ministries, capital city, and provinces, shall continue.

· The Fifth National Strategic Plan for a Comprehensive, Multi-Sectoral Response to HIV/AIDS (2019-2023) shall be implemented consistently.

· The implementation of the Fifth National Strategic Plan shall be organized at the national and subnational levels.

· Priority shall be given to geographical areas for intervention.

· The role of the NAA is the leadership to coordinate the mobilization of resources and monitor, which is the roadmap endowed with success.

· To map out plans for 2021, all the departments shall implement their tasks according to specific indicators/goals.

· To maintain long-term sustainability, we, as work coordinator and national policy executor, shall be cognizant of what the nongovernmental organizations have done and what we should be aware of them.

III) Comments by His Excellency the Senior Minister

Afterwards, the meeting proceeded to the third item on the agenda, with His Excellency the Senior Minister offering remarks and recommendations on the key points as follows:

1) H.E. Tia Phalla and H.E. Secretary General Chhim Khindareth as well as the vice chairs shall hold technical meetings to look for solutions to priority issues and devise action plans from January 4, 2021.

2) Our objective is to keep new infectious people to only one per day, utilizing the armament in our possession to implement Sor Chor Nor 213 effectively.

3) Provincial AIDS Committees should be checked to see whether they have already functioned and whether the commune/sangkat-level committees have already been set up. Moreover, if there are international and nongovernmental organizations working on AIDS in provinces, they should also be included as provincial members.

4) The COVID-19 situation remains a problem that has not yet returned to normality. Every country has experienced grave budget deficit and economic crisis. Nevertheless, Cambodia has not been affected economically and the Royal Government has doled out cash to the poor, new mothers, female workers, and people living with HIV.

5) The Royal Government plans to purchase one million doses of World Health Organization-recognized vaccine.

6) Even though COVID-19 remains epidemic, preventing us from undertaking missions as usual over a year, we have continued implementing Notification Sor Chor Nor 213, through holding the Technical Council meetings and two plenary meetings of the National AIDS Authority as well as workshops in Kampong Speu Province.

7) Continue to organize HIV response Fast Track City workshops to respond to HIV in all provinces, districts/khans, and communes/sangkats by taking priority provinces, such as Phnom Penh City and the provinces of Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, and Siem Reap, for the purpose of: 1) having AIDS Committees in the capital city, provinces, municipalities, districts/khans, and communes/sangkats function. As regards communes/sangkats, it is also easy for them to organize including in the AIDS committee composition the Women and Children Affairs Committee, nongovernmental organizations, influential people in society, and so forth; 2) advising them on how to prepare work activities according to specific situation, and 3) guiding them to use social service budgets.

8) Collaboration should continue with the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology, and STD (NCHADS) on providing treatment, care, and support as well as on budget presentation. Tasks done by NCHADS should also be grasped to produce short video spots for publicity.

9) Works in Kampong Speu Province should continue in order to check to see whether AIDS Committees have already been set up and functioning and whether they have already prepared plans.

10) Action and budgetary plans should be prepared in a way they match up, making sure that AIDS work activities of our subnational administrations become routine.

11) Works should be carried out correctly in accordance with methodology in order to comprehend new things, share experiences, hold discussions, and strengthen officials, thereby enabling the National AIDS Authority to develop.

12) Social contracts, made at the subnational level, using commune/sangkat and social service budgets to assist two or three subnational-level civil society organization workers in an area to perform AIDS works, is better.

13) Assistants at the commune/sangkat level, where there are lots of AIDS patients, should

be brought to work at the district level so they will perform AIDS works in other communes.

14) Continue to hold workshops to quest for new inputs and arrange training courses to

facilitate our future work coordination.

15) The latest report shows several writers have tried to write a great deal of news, but

there is a shortage of editors. Written articles contain a lot of mistakes in such as infection figures and rate and so forth. All documents presented to His Excellency the Senior Minister are official ones; hence, they must be verified thoroughly beforehand.

16) We should hold interministerial discussions and undertake works with the group of

trannies, who brought up many issues at the NAA Plenary Meeting and Congress: 1) sexual safety education messages that we sent out are shallow and do not reach them; 2) there is still discrimination (displayed by doctors), 3) shy feeling people abstain from receiving services.

In conclusion, His Excellency the Senior Minister offered encouragement to all the officials and urged them to exert further efforts by focusing attention on improving their tasks. We all should strive to strengthen our capabilities, seek understanding of AIDS program evolution in diverse home pages, like the programs of UNAIDS, Global Fund, Bill Gates, and so forth to gain greater knowledge in preparation for participation in international meetings.

The meeting ended at 11.45 am in an extremely pleasant and cordial atmosphere.

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