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130.5 Having a strong communication and community mobilisation strategy
and plan to ensure that all South Africans have adequate information on the
programme.
130.6 Improving the integration of services at facility level, especially between
the HIV and AIDS, TB and STI services.
130.7 Supporting traditional health practitioners and the integration of
traditional and complementary medicines with Western therapies.
130.8 Strengthening the National Health Laboratory System to meet the
demands of the programme. It requires significant investments to achieve
national coverage, consolidate its operations, and improve its efficiency.
We also need to pay attention to the KwaZulu-Natal provincial laboratory
service, which is not yet integrated into the National Health Laboratory
Service.
130.9 Ensuring good coordination at national, provincial and district level as it
relates to human resources, training, laboratory services, pharmaceutical
services, drug procurement, and information systems.
130.10 Ensuring high quality of care and adherence in patients treated in the
private sector.
130.11 Establishing sound pharmacovigilance practices in the public and private
health sectors.
130.12 Additional financial resources are needed to fund and sustain the
programme.
130.13 This will be a complex programme to manage. A large number of tasks
must be accomplished in parallel. The programme must be integrated into
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