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STEPPING BACK FROM THE EDGE
THE PURSUIT OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY IN BOTSWANA, SOUTH AFRICA AND UGANDA |
| By: |
Sue Armstrong |
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Paperback |
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£10.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9291733237 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789291733231 |
| Publisher: |
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2003 |
| Pages: |
68 |
| Synopsis: |
In 2003, UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) boosted its efforts to secure universal and equal access to antiretroviral treatment, with one of its ninecosponsoring organizations the World Health Organization taking a leading role. Thecampaign has adopted the goal of having 3 million people on treatment by 2005 as a first step. This document looks at what it will take to achieve universal access to HIVtreatment: vision, activism and risk-taking. The examples in this Best Practice document are drawn from Botswana, South Africaand Uganda. They show communities and individuals in action, overcoming the barrier of grossly inadequate resources to become models of effective activism. The challenges remain enormous: poor health infrastructures, inadequate hospital facilities, shortages of professional staff, and little expertise in treating HIV/AIDS. But with global will, combined with national and community action, the ’impossible' is being put within reach.Equitable access to HIV treatment is one of the great moral challenges of our times.Alongside its essential counterpart universal access to HIV-prevention efforts it holds the key to halting the AIDS pandemic. |
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Illustrations |
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Switzerland |
| Imprint: |
World Health Organization |
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Non-returnable |
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