Health systems
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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. The study highli...
- The role of the private sector in the HIV and AIDS response
- Wenjuan Wang; Sara Sulzbach; Susna De / Social Science and Medicine, 2011
- Increasing the participation of the private health sector in the AIDS response could help to achieve universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. This realisation notwithstanding, little is known abou...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- Integrating HIV and TB care in Benin and the DRC
- Josef Decosas (ed) / Health Research for Action, 2008
- This document is the final evaluation of a three year project to pilot integrated HIV and TB care in Benin and the DRC. The project was implemented by the National Tuberculosis Programmes of the two countries under management by the I...
- Fairly pricing antiretroviral drugs
- D. Dionisio; C. Fabbri; D. Messeri / Future Medicine, 2009
- 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 health care systems, a critical short...
- The impact of global health initiatives on equity in financing Uganda's health sector
- Charlotte M Zikusooka; Mark Tumwine; Patrick Tutembe / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
- Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has bee...
- Access to HIV counselling and testing must be improved in rural South Africa
- Karl Peltzer; Gladys Matseke; Thembile Mzolo / BioMed Central, 2009
- With over 30% of women and men in the South Africa's 2005 national HIV household survey indicating that they had previously been tested for HIV (of which 91% were aware of their test results), this paper published by BioMed Centr...
- How global health initiatives impact upon national health systems
- Regien G Biesma; Ruairı´ Brugha; Andrew Harmer / Health Policy and Planning, 2009
- This paper, published by the Health Policy and Planning journal, reviews country-level evidence about the impact of global health initiatives (GHIs), which have had profound effects on recipient country health systems in middle and lo...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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. The study highli...
- The role of the private sector in the HIV and AIDS response
- Wenjuan Wang; Sara Sulzbach; Susna De / Social Science and Medicine, 2011
- Increasing the participation of the private health sector in the AIDS response could help to achieve universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. This realisation notwithstanding, little is known abou...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- Integrating HIV and TB care in Benin and the DRC
- Josef Decosas (ed) / Health Research for Action, 2008
- This document is the final evaluation of a three year project to pilot integrated HIV and TB care in Benin and the DRC. The project was implemented by the National Tuberculosis Programmes of the two countries under management by the I...
- Fairly pricing antiretroviral drugs
- D. Dionisio; C. Fabbri; D. Messeri / Future Medicine, 2009
- 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 health care systems, a critical short...
- The impact of global health initiatives on equity in financing Uganda's health sector
- Charlotte M Zikusooka; Mark Tumwine; Patrick Tutembe / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
- Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has bee...
- Access to HIV counselling and testing must be improved in rural South Africa
- Karl Peltzer; Gladys Matseke; Thembile Mzolo / BioMed Central, 2009
- With over 30% of women and men in the South Africa's 2005 national HIV household survey indicating that they had previously been tested for HIV (of which 91% were aware of their test results), this paper published by BioMed Centr...
- How global health initiatives impact upon national health systems
- Regien G Biesma; Ruairı´ Brugha; Andrew Harmer / Health Policy and Planning, 2009
- This paper, published by the Health Policy and Planning journal, reviews country-level evidence about the impact of global health initiatives (GHIs), which have had profound effects on recipient country health systems in middle and lo...
- Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS)
- The Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) is a government institution mandated to provide strategic leadership and to coordinate and strengthen efforts of all stakeholders involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
