The HIV Pandemic: Local and Global Implications
Eduard J. Beck, Nicholas Mays, Alan W. Whiteside, and José M. Zuniga
Abstract
This book examines how local and global responses to the HIV Pandemic are shaped by the history, culture, institutions, and health system of the countries affected. Country chapters combine health policy experts with HIV specialists, presenting a ‘top down’ health system approach and a ‘bottom up’ HIV-specific perspective. Thematic and analytical chapters provide a global overview and some suggestions for solutions. Increasingly, those involved are being forced to think differently about how services are financed, how resources are allocated, how systems are structured and organised, how servi ... More
This book examines how local and global responses to the HIV Pandemic are shaped by the history, culture, institutions, and health system of the countries affected. Country chapters combine health policy experts with HIV specialists, presenting a ‘top down’ health system approach and a ‘bottom up’ HIV-specific perspective. Thematic and analytical chapters provide a global overview and some suggestions for solutions. Increasingly, those involved are being forced to think differently about how services are financed, how resources are allocated, how systems are structured and organised, how services are delivered to patients, and how these services are monitored and evaluated to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and acceptability of the response. No response is perfect, but the evidence provided here allows the sharing of knowledge and an opportunity to assess the impact of, and reactions to, a pandemic that must be considered a long-term issue.
Keywords:
local responses,
global responses,
health system,
HIV pandemic,
top down approach,
bottom up perspective
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199237401 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199237401.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Eduard J. Beck, editor
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, McGill University, Canada
Nicholas Mays, editor
Professor of Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Alan W. Whiteside, editor
Professor and Director, Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
José M. Zuniga, editor
Executive Officer, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, Chicago, USA
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