What's to know and what's to be done-implementing and monitoring STI and HIV programmes

ABSTRACT

With decades of experience implementing STI and HIV programmes globally what do we know and what are we still learning? Implementation science is a relatively new approach to understanding what facilitates rapid implementation and the barriers to implementation. With a rising tide of some STIs and need to eliminate HIV as a public health threat, this presentation will focus on experiences of a national programme manager implementing STI, HIV and other programmes in an upper middle-income country - South Africa. Looking ahead does the COVID-19 pandemic provide us with opportunities to do things differently - and if yes, what can they be.