NAIROBI, 27 May 2009 (IRIN/PlusNews) – Providing HIV prevention, care and treatment services at well-equipped local clinics could be the key to success in fighting the pandemic in the developing world, a new report by the international anti-poverty NGO, ActionAid, has said.
“We need to target and mobilise people at the most basic level of healthcare,” said Miriam Were, chair of the Kenya National AIDS Control Council, at the launch of the report, Primary Concern: why primary healthcare is key to tackling HIV and AIDS, in Nairobi, Kenya.
“HIV care is much broader than just ARVs [antiretrovirals]. People living with HIV need comprehensive healthcare; health centres should have the capacity to deal with opportunistic infections.”
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Læs hele rapporten fra ActionAid “Primary Concern – why primary healthcare is key to tackling HIV and AIDS”: http://www.actionaid.org/assets/pdf/Primary%20Concern%20-%20why%20primary%20healthcare%20is%20key%20to%20tackling%20HIV%20and%20AIDS.pdf
