Towards Universal Access
Towards Universal Access
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hese Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention: Towards Universal Access are designed to provide policy makers and planners with practical guidance to tailor their national HIV prevention response so that they respond to the epidemic dynamics and social context of the country and populations who remain most vulnerable to and at risk of HIV infection. They have been developed in consultation with the UNAIDS cosponsors, international collaborating partners, government, civil society leaders and other experts. They build on Intensifying HIV Prevention: UNAIDS Policy Position Paper and the UNAIDS Action Plan on Intensifying HIV Prevention. Download this publication |
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The failure of half-measures to stem the worldwide expansion of HIV has led the global community to embrace the goal of moving towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010. The move towards universal access reflects a commitment to undertake an accelerated scale-up of evidence-informed measures in all regions of the world to address an epidemic that has inflicted history’s “single greatest reversal in human development” (Human Development Report, 2005). Download this publication |
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At the June 2006 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, United Nations Member States agreed to work towards the goal of “universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support” by 2010. Download this publication |
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| From late December 2005 to March 2006, the Philippines undertook a series of initiatives to develop its targets and roadmap in line with the global initiative towards “Scaling Up Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support”. These include: · Desk review to map the different prevention, treatment, care and support services available in the Philippines for each of the various most-at-risk and vulnerable groups, and current level of access by each group, and to revisit existing national policies, guidelines and protocols. · Convening a Technical Working Group, composed of members from various disciplines to draft country-specific targets and roadmap towards Universal Access. · Conductinga national multisectoral consultation, participated in by representatives of government- national and local, NGOs, people living with HIV, academe and multilateral agencies, to a) refine the draft targets and roadmap; and b) identify obstacles in the field that might hinder the achievement of the targets set. Download this publication |
| Sri Lanka currently has an HIV prevalence rate of less than 0.1 percent. In order to maintain the low prevalence rate, Sri Lanka’s universal access priority will be in the area of prevention, though treatment and care will also be expanded. Sri Lanka also plans to conduct advocacy and campaigns to improve attitudes towards HIV and AIDS in the society and facilitate access to all services. Download this publication |
| There are 67,528 cumulative cases of HIV/AIDS reported in Malaysia up to June 20051. For the last five years, the number of newly detected HIV cases has been at an average of 6000 to 6900 per year. Since the disease emerged in 1986, the profile of HIV infection has remained consistently driven by the injecting drug users (IDUs), male, young people aged 20-39 years and among the Malay ethnic group. Download this publication |
 | The report that follows will describe the nature of the HIV epidemic in Nepal as well as the performance of the national response, its obstacles, goals, key targets and actions for a scaled-up effort towards universal access. Download this publication |
| The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic is one of the most serious health crises the world faces today. AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since 1981 and an estimated 38.6 million people are now living with HIV, about 2.3 million of whom are children. Download this publication |
| The most efficient and cost-effective way to tackle paediatric HIV globally is to reduce mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). However, every day there are nearly 1500 new infections in children under 15 years of age, more than 90% of them occurring in the developing world and most being associated with MTCT. Download this publication |
