Diagnosing the estimated 38 million people living with HIV globally and ensuring they are
linked to, and remain fully adherent to, their lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) is an …

The achievement of an AIDS-free future will surely be a priority discussion topic at the
upcoming International AIDS Society conference in Melbourne, Australia. The discovery that …

WHO has proposed a public-health approach to antiretroviral therapy (ART) to enable
scaling-up access to treatment for HIV-positive people in developing countries, recognising …

There is no substitute for either local knowledge or national leadership as the world moves
towards the endgame in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Increased country engagement, or so …

In 2006, WHO set forth its vision for a public health approach to delivering antiretroviral
therapy. This approach has been broadly adopted in resource-poor settings and has …

South Africa is home to the largest HIV seropositive population in the world, with 7· 2 million
individuals. 1 Since the country's first case of HIV in 1982, South Africa has come a long way …

Country ownership and health-system strengthening are key global health slogans in the
current era of HIV/AIDS treatment scale-up. Their meaning, however, is hotly debated. Is …

Given the 400 million people who do not have access to essential health services, 1 the UN
has included achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030 in the Sustainable …

Thanks to the leadership of Angela Merkel and Shinzo Abe, universal health coverage
(UHC) is on the agenda of the G7 Summit. 1 The achievement of UHC will contribute to …

Haiti is by all conventional criteria the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of
the poorest in the world: 13 per capita gross national product (GNP) is around US $400; …