Has the Planning Council developed a Health Plan for HIV Services?
Yes. In 1994, the Planning Council published Phase I of an HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Health Plan for the NEMA. This document represented the consensus of a number of discussion groups which included People Living With and Affected By HIV/AIDS, community leaders, service providers, HIV/AIDS experts and others totaling over 125 participants. This document described the ideal, necessary and optimum ingredients for a working plan to provide needed HIV/AIDS services throughout the NEMA. Phase II and III were successfully carried out in 1996 and 1998.In the year 2000 the Planning Council undertook another major Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Health Plan. This document an epidemiological description of the people with HIV in the Newark EMA who are receiving services and those not receiving services; it also provided epidemiological projections to the year 2003 to assist in short- and medium-term planning. Like the 1994 Health Plan, the 2000 Health Plan described the ideal continuum of HIV-related servic
