tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Increase coverage of HIV and AIDS services in Myanmar"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Increase coverage of HIV and AIDS services in Myanmar. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Open Access Review Increase coverage of HIV and AIDS services in Myanmar Brian Williams 1 Daniel Baker2 Markus Buhler1 and Charles Petrie3 Address 1UNAIDS 223 Sule Pagoda Road Yangon Myanmar 2UNFPA 6 Natmauk Road Yangon Myanmar and 3UNDP 6 Natmauk Road Yangon Myanmar Email Brian Williams - williamsb@ Daniel Baker - baker@ Markus Buhler - buhlerm@ Charles Petrie - Corresponding author Published 14 March 2008 Received 14 August 2007 Conflict and Health 2008 2 3 doi l752-l505-2-3 Accepted I4 March 2008 This article is available from http content 2 l 3 2008 Williams et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Myanmar is experiencing an HIV epidemic documented since the late 1980s. The National AIDS Programme national surveillance ante-natal clinics had already estimated in 1993 that of pregnant women were HIV positive and UNAIDS estimates that at end 2005 l .3 range of the adult population was living with HIV. While a HIV surveillance system has been in place since l992 the programmatic response to the epidemic has been slower to emerge although short- and medium-terms plans have been formulated since l990. These early plans focused on the health sector omitted key population groups at risk of HIV transmission and have not been adequately funded. The public health system more generally is severely under-funded. By the beginning of the new decade a number of organisations had begun working on HIV and AIDS though not yet in a formally coordinated manner. The Joint Programme on AIDS in Myanmar 2003-2005 was an attempt to deliver HIV services through a planned and agreed strategic