DELTA STATE ACTION COMMITTEE ON AIDS is charged with the responsibilities:

• To promote a state, national, regional international multi-sectoral mobilization for HIV/AIDS prevention and management
• To Coordinate all multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS activities in the state.
• To act as supervisory body to Local Action Committees on AIDS (LACA) in the state.
• To increase awareness and sensitization among the general population and strategically targeted stakeholders
• To promote behavioural and attitudinal changes in both low and high risk population
• To promote a state, national, regional, international understanding and acceptance of the principle that all persons must accept responsibility for the prevention of HIV prevention
• To ensure that communities are properly empowered to conceptualize, design and initiate community-specific action plans for the prevention and management of HIV/AIDS
• To ameliorate/remove human impediments, financial, religious, cultural and informational barriers to HIV/AIDS prevention and management
• To develop and implement a multi-disciplinary institutional framework and legal mechanisms for HIV/AIDS prevention, control and management.
• To develop and prescribe standards and guidelines leading to the institutionalization of global best practices in caring, giving, management and support to people infected by HIV/AIDS.
• To implement the activities of the state plan and National plan using a decentralized and participatory people-oriented approaches/methodology