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Rapid scale-up of antiretroviral treatment in Ethiopia: : successes and system-wide effects

Assefa, Yibeltal ; Jerene, Degu LU ; Lulseged, Sileshi ; Ooms, Gorik and Van Damme, Wim (2009) In PLoS Medicine 6(4).
Abstract

There has been substantial expansion of access to ART and HIV counseling and testing in Ethiopia, whilst maintaining the performance of other health programs such as tuberculosis and maternal and child health services.
Task shifting to the health officers, nurses, and health extension workers is thought to be responsible for these successes.
However, HIV prevention interventions and management of chronic care patients are lagging behind. This may be due to lack of attention to these health care areas and to physicians leaving the public sector for NGOs, including AIDS-related NGOs.
Prevention of HIV infection, retention of patients in chronic care, and retention of physicians in the public sector need... (More)

There has been substantial expansion of access to ART and HIV counseling and testing in Ethiopia, whilst maintaining the performance of other health programs such as tuberculosis and maternal and child health services.
Task shifting to the health officers, nurses, and health extension workers is thought to be responsible for these successes.
However, HIV prevention interventions and management of chronic care patients are lagging behind. This may be due to lack of attention to these health care areas and to physicians leaving the public sector for NGOs, including AIDS-related NGOs.
Prevention of HIV infection, retention of patients in chronic care, and retention of physicians in the public sector need urgent attention for effective and sustainable HIV/AIDS and health systems responses in the long term.
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Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use, Counseling, Ethiopia, HIV Infections/drug therapy, Humans, Preventive Health Services, Public Health, Workforce
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PLoS Medicine
volume
6
issue
4
article number
e1000056
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4 pages
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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  • pmid:19399154
  • scopus:66149157254
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1549-1676
DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.1000056
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English
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