The Ukrainian Centre for Monitoring and Evaluation of Program Activities to Counter HIV / AIDS and Tuberculosis (M&E Centre) was established by order of the Ministry of Healthcare of 09.04.2009, № 236 for the purpose of monitoring and evaluation of program activities to counter HIV and TB at the national and regional levels, dissemination of information on the spread of HIV / TB epidemic.
The M&E Centre is a separate structural unit of State Institution ‘Ukrainian Centre for Socially Dangerous Disease Control’ (UCDC) of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine.
The M&E Centre provides for the establishment of a unified system of monitoring and evaluation of actions to counter HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis. Its tasks also include implementation of comprehensive systematic monitoring of the process and results of actions pertaining to countering HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis, determining their effectiveness; ensuring reliability, objectivity and integrity of information, its pertinence to the tasks of national programs; ensuring the access to databases on M&E. One of the main objectives of the Centre is the M&E coordination and support of the 26 regional centres for monitoring and evaluation (RC for M&E) operating in each region of Ukraine.
Specialists of the M&E Centre in accordance with their tasks develop activities and prepare information materials and recommendations for preventing the spread of the epidemic of HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis in Ukraine; provide a unified system for collecting, systematizing, and storing information about the situation regarding the spread of HIV / AIDS and TB, and perform data verification; develop and improve national M&E indicators, statistical forms, instructions, methods of M&E data collection; prepare analytical reports and information reviews, etc.
Activity of the M&E Centre is regulated by the following legal documents:
1. Order of the MOH of Ukraine of 09.04.2009, № 236 ‘On Establishment of the Ukrainian Centre for Monitoring and Evaluation of Program Activities to Counter HIV / AIDS at the Ukrainian Centre for Prevention and Control of AIDS of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine’.
2. Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 28.12.2011, № 1349 ‘On the Unified System of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Efficiency of Measures Aimed at Preventing the Spread of HIV Epidemic’.
3. Order of the MOH of Ukraine of 09.02.2012, № 97 ‘On Approval of the National Plan of Monitoring and Evaluation of the National Programme on HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support for HIV-positive Persons and AIDS patients for 2009-2013’.
Addresses of regional M&E centres