Combating Hiv/Aids in Developing Countries
British Medical Journal, Vol. 329, 2004
3 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2006
Abstract
In July 2004 the international community will convene in Bangkok, Thailand, for the 15th international AIDS conference. The gathering occurs at an opportune time in global health as just months earlier, the World Health Organization and UNAIDS launched the "3 by 5" programme a global initiative to provide antiretroviral therapy to 3 million with HIV/AIDS in developing countries by the end of 2005. Additionally in the past few years the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was created, to finance a scaling up of resources for interventions against all three diseases (www.theglobalfund.org/en/). These initiatives are augmented by increases in funding from private, national, and international sources. Together these efforts represent one of the most important trends in global health over the past five years. The movement for increased funding for HIV/AIDS in developing countries has brought attention to the issue and initiated a process of responding to it.
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, developing countries, empowerment, capability approach
JEL Classification: H23, H53, H87, I18, I31
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