Somaliland National Aids Commission

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Welcome to SOLNAC website. This website intends to disseminate HIV and AIDS information and sharing knowledge among stakeholders and to promote best practices. The website gives weight to a bottom up structure of knowledge sharing while providing a forum for stakeholders to network, share ideas and experiences and subsequently to improve the struggle against of HIV and AIDS and have Somaliland free from AIDS.
The Somaliland National AIDS Commission (SOLNAC) was established by Presidential Decree No 88/2005 and officially proclaimed on 15th September 2005 and located under the Office of the President “to oversee, plan and coordinate” the multisectoral efforts towards the effective fight against HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Somaliland. Read More
The vision of Somaliland National AIDS Commission is the eventual elimination of HIV/AIDS in Somaliland, by employing current successful interventions worldwide and developing new and more appropriate popular, practical strategies, effective implementation mechanisms and concrete monitoring approaches at national, regional and community levels.
SOLNAC exists to provide leadership in coordination of HIV/AIDS programs and activities of all stakeholders in Somaliland through advocacy, joint planning, monitoring and evaluation for the eventual prevention, control of the spread and elimination of the AIDS scourge in Somaliland.
In 1999, a community based survey on Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices (KABP) was carried out in Somaliland. The survey revealed 0.9 percent HIV prevalence in the general population, 4.6 percent among tuberculosis patients and 47 percent HIV prevalence among a limited number of voluntary tested female sex workers. Among antenatal women, HIV and syphilis prevalence were 0.8 and 1.8 percent respectively. According to ‘HIV Test Statistic Among Blood Donors in Somaliland.
The structure of the SOLNACS hinges on four Directorates: Human Resource Development, Communication & Social Mobilization, Clinic, Care and Support and Admin./Finance. There are also management supporting service unities namely Monitoring and Evaluation and gender.

Somaliland Fact Sheet

Over the past ten years, the degree of peace and stability obtained in Somaliland and the presence of viable government counterparts allowed a large number of UN agencies, INGOs and local partners to work in a coordinated manner on both humanitarian and development programmes, as the region moves ever closer to political, economic and social recovery and reconstruction.

Somaliland has an estimated population of 2 – 3 million and broke away from Somalia in 1991 declaring ‘independence’ which has not been recognized to date by the international community. Somaliland did not participate in the recent peace process (2003/4) initiated in neighbouring Kenya and has continued to reiterate its sovereignty. Meanwhile, a nascent democratic system has been put in place as ongoing political development and economic recovery materialize. Legislative elections were held on 29 September 2005 (following council elections in 2002 and presidential elections in 2003) which according to international observers present, were carried out in a peaceful, free and fair manner. Of the 1.2 million refugees that fled Somalia’s conflict in 1991, 700,000 have returned back to Somaliland, attracted by the dynamic urban areas and relative stability of the region.

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