HIV and AIDS
The world is facing an ever-increasing global expansion of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Two-thirds of the world's HIV-positive people live in Africa, where in several countries adult HIV prevalence is approaching 40 per cent.
The health sector is doubly-affected by the HIV epidemic: HIV-related illness has resulted in massive and mounting demands on already severely constrained services and resources, while simultaneously undermining the capacity to provide those services through its erosion of the health workforce.
There is a need to reduce the impact of the HIV epidemic on health systems and ensure that health systems are sufficiently strengthened to deliver comprehensive HIV and AIDS services including prevention, care and support. Focus also needs to be given to wider institutional and policy frameworks supporting a multisectoral response, including coordination structures between key stakeholders and sectors.
- Parliaments, politics and HIV/AIDS: A comparative study of five African countries
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This paper provides an assessment on the national parliaments of Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa use of their oversight function to inform and monitor national HIV and AIDS responses. More specifically, the primary goal is to improve the overall effectiveness of the HIV and AIDS responses in the participating countries.
Recommended readings
- Interim review of the Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program for Africa
- ( World Bank , 2004)
- This report presents the findings of an interim review of the Multi-Country HIV/AIDS programme for Africa (the MAP programme) and makes recommendations for the future strategic development of the prog...
- UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This report warns that the number of people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has risen in every region of the world during 2003 and last year five million people became newly infected with...
- Health systems strengthening and HIV/AIDS: annotated bibliography and resources
- ( L. Kolyada / Partners for Health Reformplus , 2004)
- The effective provision of services to those affected by HIV and AIDS will require significant strengthening of national health systems, according to this overview of recent research from the Partners...
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- The potential of mobile phones in improving global health
- ( The Economist , 2009)
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This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences...
Fairly pricing antiretroviral drugs
- ( D. Dionisio;C. Fabbri;D. Messeri / Future Medicine , 2009)
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Despite progress, antiretroviral therapy coverage in low- and middle-income countries remains poor: only 31% of HIV-infected people in need were receiving treatment in 2007. Obstacles include weak ...
