Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS, ARVs, HIV and AIDS treatment and care

Showing 111-120 of 162 results

Pages

  • Document

    Improving access to anti-retroviral treatment in Cambodia

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003
    This report attempts to evaluate current and future opportunities for improving access to safe and effective anti-retroviral (ARV) HIV/AIDS treatment in Cambodia. It argues that although there is increasing political will and financial commitment to scaling up ARV treatment in Cambodia, how to do this in practice remains a challenge.
  • Document

    Gender, AIDS, and ARV therapies: ensuring that women gain equitable access to drugs within U.S. funded treatment initiatives

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2004
    This briefing paper identifies a number of essential elements of a gender sensitive approach to HIV treatment access to be incorporated in the United States (US) global AIDS strategies.Main recommendations include:the eligibility criteria developed by the US must recognise the effect of gender inequities at the household and community level on women’s access to treat
  • Document

    Treatment guidelines for a public health approach [to HIV in Tamil Nadu]

    Eldis Document Store, 2004
    This short publication provides up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment.This issue includes:treatment guidelines for a public health approach: presents the updated and simplified treatment guidelines that are a cornerstone of the WHO’s "3- by-5 Plan", aimed at having at least 3 million people in need of antiretroviral treatment in developing countries with access to i
  • Document

    Where there's a will there's a way: nursing and midwifery champions in HIV/AIDS care in Southern Africa

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    Commissioned by the SADC (Southern African Development Community) AIDS Network of Nurses and Midwives (SANNAM) in collaboration with UNAIDS, this report summarises the results of a month of field research in five countries in Southern Africa – Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.
  • Document

    Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

    UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002
    This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.
  • Document

    Stepping back from the edge: the pursuit of antiretroviral therapy in Botswana, South Africa and Uganda

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003
    This Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ‘Best Practice Collection’ describes who is taking the initiative on better access to antiretrovirals at grass-roots level and how they are doing it. The report offers firsthand experience from HIV/AIDS programmes in three African countries.
  • Document

    Provision of antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings: a review of experience up to August 2003

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004
    Cheaper drugs and increased levels of financing mean the prospects should be improving for people with HIV/AIDS in poorer countries. There has been an expansion of existing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes and a number of new initiatives. But how can access to ART be most effectively improved, and what are the pitfalls that policymakers must avoid?
  • Document

    Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

    World Bank, 2003
    This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
  • Document

    Network: research to practice

    Network, 2003
    This issue of Network (Family Health International's (FHI) quarterly scientific bulletin) discusses some of the key challenges of translating health research into positive practice. The complexities of both the research and policy-making processes, as well as the difficulties of effecting organisational and behavioural change are emphasised.
  • Document

    Costing of HIV/AIDS treatment in Mexico

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003
    This study documents the Mexican experience in HIV/AIDS treatment in three different health subsystems:The Ministry of Health (SSA)The Mexican Social Security Institute/Social Security and Services Institute for Workers of the State (IMSS/ISSSTE)The National Institutes of Health (INS)The study uses a consistent methodology that allows the comparison of the relative costs of

Pages