tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Universal access: the benefits and challenges in bringing integrated HIV care to isolated and conflict affected populations in the Republic of Congo"

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: Universal access: the benefits and challenges in bringing integrated HIV care to isolated and conflict affected populations in the Republic of Congo. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Open Access Case study Universal access the benefits and challenges in bringing integrated HIV care to isolated and conflict affected populations in the Republic of Congo Daniel P O Brien 1 Clair Mills1 Catherine Hamel2 Nathan Ford3 and Kevin Pottie2 4 Address 1Médecins Sans Frontieres Holland Amsterdam The Netherlands 2Médecins Sans Frontieres-Holland Brazzaville Republic of Congo 3Médecins Sans Frontieres South Africa Cape Town South Africa and 4Centre for Global Health Institute of Population Health and Elisabeth Bruyère Research Institute University of Ottawa Ottowa Ontario Canada Email Daniel P O Brien - Clair Mills - Catherine Hamel - hamelcp@ Nathan Ford - Kevin Pottie - kpottie@ Corresponding author Published 7 January 2009 Conflict and Health 2009 3 1 doi 1752-1505-3-1 Received 4 November 2008 Accepted 7 January 2009 This article is available from http content 3 l l 2009 O Brien 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. The Pool region of the Republic of Congo is an isolated conflict-affected area with underresourced and poorly functioning health care services. Despite significant AIDS-related mortality and morbidity in this area and a national level commitment to universal HIV care HIV has been largely neglected. In 2005 Médecins Sans Frontières decided to introduce HIV care activities. However in this setting of high basic health care needs limited medical resources and competing medical priorities a vertical HIV programme was not suitable. This paper describes the process of integrating HIV care and treatment into basic health