Health systems and HIV/AIDS
The HIV and AIDS epidemic poses a particular challenge to many health systems, so how can this be turned into an opportunity to strengthen health systems as a whole?This section covers: mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into the health sector; National AIDS Commissions; HIV and AIDS in the workplace; Human resources; and International policy and finance.
Latest Documents
- Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections for Sex Workers in Low- and Middle- Income Countries
- 2012
- These global guidelines, produced by WHO, UNAIDS and UNFPA, aim to provide technical recommendations on effective interventions for the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs among sex workers and their clients. The guidelines...
- Quantifying and addressing losses along the continuum of care for people living with HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
- K. Kranzer / Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2012
- Recent years have seen an increasing recognition of the need to improve access and retention in care for people living with HIV/AIDS. This review aims to quantify patients along the continuum of care in sub-Saharan Africa and review p...
- How Malaysia improved its harm reduction interventions and programmes: documenting good practice
- Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organisation, 2011
- This report documents the good practices in harm reduction programmes in Malaysia and the progress to date in addressing the transmission of HIV among people who use drugs. It highlights and discusses how policies and programmes have ...
- A framework for determining how best to allocate scarce health care resources in South Africa
- S.M. Cleary; G.H. Mooney; D.E. McIntyre / Health Policy and Planning, 2011
- Trying to determine how best to allocate resources in health care is especially difficult when resources are severely constrained, as is the case in all developing countries. This is particularly true in South Africa currently where t...
- Efficiencies in healthcare delivery doesn’t replace financing: donors have to complement their HIV commitments
- T.V. Schoen-Angerer; D. Maher; J. Cohn / Wiley Online Library, 2011
- Much of the funding mobilised for the global response to HIV has supported successful expansion in antiretroviral therapy (ART) access, but funding is now at a critical juncture as the global financial crisis bites and funders hesitat...
- Efforts to confront the deadly combination of TB and HIV need to be scaled up
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- Tuberculosis (TB) is the main cause of death in people living with HIV. This report is a call that TB should not be a death sentence for a two million people living with HIV and expected to die of TB between 2011 and 2015. ...
- The implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities in a Cameroonian district hospital
- H.A. Yumo; C. Kuaban; F. Neuhann / National Centre for Biotechnology Information, USA, 2011
- In response to the need of integrating tuberculosis (TB)/HIV activities, the WHO in 2004 mapped out a number of key activities to be implemented by countries to ensure effective collaboration between TB and HIV programmes. This study ...
- When should patients co-infected with TB and HIV start ART in Malawi?
- M.V. Lettow; A.K. Chan; A.S. Ginsburg / Ingenta, 2011
- Malawian policy to invite patients co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) 2 months after initiating TB treatment changed recently; the new policy shortened the period to 2 weeks instead of 2 m...
- HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among at-risk groups in Lebanon
- Z. Mahfoud; R. Afifi; S. Ramia / International AIDS Society, 2010
- Preventing HIV among at-risk groups can help to curb the spread of HIV to the general population. The objectives of this paper is to measure HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among female sex workers, injecting drug users (ID...
- HIV among MSM in the Middle East and North Africa
- G. Mumtaz; N. Hilmi; W. McFarland / PLoS Medicine, 2011
- Men who have sex with men (MSM) bear a disproportionately higher burden of HIV infection than the general population. The objective of this review is to demonstrate the evidence on the epidemiology of HIV among MSM in the Middle East ...
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