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Harm-reduction projects in Ukraine
Heroin addict with syringe
G. Wyn Jones/ Panos Pictures
Ukraine has the highest prevalence of HIV in Europe. An emphasis on harm reduction is bearing fruit, with community organisations leading the fight against HIV among drug injectors and sex workers. Challenges do remain though.

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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 i...
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 finan...
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 ...
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 betwe...
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...
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 ...
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...
HIV and AIDS research findings from the Middle East and North Africa
W. McFarland;L.J. Abu-Raddad;Z. Mahfoud / International AIDS Society , 2011
Of all areas of the world, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) may engender the most perceptions and misperceptions about the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the face of a scarcity of accessible data....
Legal frameworks affecting PLHIV in the Caribbean
Caribbean Community Secretariat , 2010
This publication, commissioned by CARICOM, is a desk review report of existing legislative frameworks affecting people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families in eleven countries in the Caribbean.&...
Ethiopia’s AIDS response and its successful “integrated health system strengthening approach”
Y. Assefa;A. Alebachew;H. Fassil / Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2010
Ethiopia’s AIDS response is distinguished by its ‘integrated health system strengthening approach’ to expanding health service-delivery. This study on Ethiopia’s experience ...
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