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6 Programme Management and Organizational Capacity-building

Coverage: High coverage of sex worker populations is essential to achieve impact at a population
level, and coverage should be monitored at all levels—municipal, district, state/province and central.
Planning for and calculating coverage requires an estimate of the total sex worker population (the
denominator). For a country-wide view, the national AIDS control programme or a central management
agency obtains or coordinates this coverage information, in partnership with all implementing
organizations (see Section 6.2.6, Box 6.4). Programmes that achieve high coverage of sex workers
and wide geographic scope (“scaled programmes”) require close