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Priority interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector

HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector

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Publisher: HIV/AIDS Department, WHO, 2008

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Despite progress made in scaling up the response over the last decade, the HIV pandemic remains the most serious infectious disease challenge to global public health.

This guide provides the 'how-to' for scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support interventions in the health sector. It is intended for use by public health decision makers, national AIDS programme managers, health care providers and workers (governmental, non-governmental and private), international and national and local donors, and civil society, including people living with and affected by HIV.

This document aims to:

  • describe the priority health sector interventions that are needed to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care
  • summarise key policy and technical recommendations developed by WHO and related to each of the priority health sector interventions
  • guide the selection and prioritisation of interventions for HIV prevention, treatment and care
  • provide resources to support implementation of the priority health sector interventions for HIV prevention, treatment and care including a wide range of tools and other resources.
The resources and tools provided are web-based presented as a reference list of key guidelines, toolkits and other resources.