ABC: Abstain, Be Faithful, Use Condoms

AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

ANAA: Algerian Network against AIDS

ART: Antiretroviral  Therapy

ATL MST SIDA : Association Tunisienne de Lutte contre les MST et le SIDA

BSS : Behavioural Surveillance Survey

CBO : Community Based Organization

CHAHAMA: Regional Network of Religious Leaders

CSO: Civil Society Organization

ELISA: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

ETG: Expended Theme Group on HIV/AIDS

FBO: Faith Based Organization

GFATM: The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria

GWA : Good Will Ambassador

HAART: Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

HARPAS: HIV/AIDS Regional Project in the Arab States

HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

IDU: Intravenous Drug User

IHAA: International HIV/AIDS Alliance

MDG: Millennium Development Goals

M&E: Monitoring and Evaluation

MENA: Middle East and North Africa

MENAHRA: Middle East & North Africa Harm Reduction Association

MOH: Ministry of Public Health

MSM: Men who Have Sex with Men

MTCT: Mother-to-Child Transmission

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NANASO: North Africa Network of NGOs on AIDS

NAP: National AIDS Program

NGO: Non-Governmental Organization

NSP: National Strategic Plan

OI : Opportunistic Infection

OPALS: Organisation Panafricaine de Lutte contre le Sida

OST: Opiates Substitution Therapy

OVC: Orphans and Vulnerable Children

PLHIV: People Living with HIV

PMTCT: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission

RMM: Regional Management Meeting

ROMS : Réseau des ONG Marocaines travaillant sur le SIDA

RONASIMA: Réseau des ONG Nationales de lutte contre le SIDA/IST en Mauritanie.

RRG: Regional Resource Group

RST: Regional Support Team

SIDC: Soins Infirmiers et Développement Communautaire

STI: Sexual Transmitted Infections

SW: Sex Workers

TOR: Terms of Reference

TOT: Training Of Trainers

UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS

UNDP: United Nations Development Program

UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund

UNHCR: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Fund

UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women

UNODC: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

VCT: Voluntary Counseling and Testing

WAD: World AIDS Day

WHO: World Health Organization

YNAA: Yemeni Network of NGOs against AIDS

Y-Peer: Youth Peer Educators