2010
DOI: 10.1097/qad.0b013e32833cbb41
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United States global health policy: HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Abstract: The Obama administration has unveiled a new 6-year, $63 billion Global Health Initiative. In addition to the reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to fund HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, the plan also supports maternal and child health (MCH) initiatives that are rooted in a proposal known as the Mother and Child Campaign. The architects of the Obama administration's Global Health Initiative recommend funding the Mother and Child Campaign at the expense of future fundin… Show more

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“…While integrated health systems may streamline service provision, reduce stigma, and broaden coverage, in most settings such models cannot address existing gaps in health infrastructure such as staffing shortages and physical space (22). Integrated health approaches themselves require investment, perhaps leveraged through existing resources for HIV care (23, 24), to realize their full potential.…”
Section: Why Integrate?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While integrated health systems may streamline service provision, reduce stigma, and broaden coverage, in most settings such models cannot address existing gaps in health infrastructure such as staffing shortages and physical space (22). Integrated health approaches themselves require investment, perhaps leveraged through existing resources for HIV care (23, 24), to realize their full potential.…”
Section: Why Integrate?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Embracing the control of the NTDs, the most common infections of girls and women in developing countries [5], is also consistent with recent calls to expand PEPFAR's mandate to include maternal and child health initiatives [35]. In the meantime, there is a need for studies to confirm the cost-effectiveness of linking NTDs with HIV/AIDS.…”
Section: Integration In Actionmentioning
confidence: 54%
“…Other aspects should be taken into account, too: 1) the biological plausibility of the observed association is a meaningful relationship; 2) regarding the biological gradient of the observed association, there is a relationship between the extremes (> poverty and < educational level = > risk of anemia); and 3) the consistency of our research findings with which is known about the natural history of the disease. In fact, poverty produces not only direct effects but also non financial costs, such as hunger, undernourishment and malnutrition, which contribute to arise feelings of deprivation and frustration, apart from pain, suffering and reduced life quality [4] . Impoverishment, life conditions on the borders of survival and social inequality have a high negative impact on the health of AIDS patients and increase their vulnerability to anemia [5] .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, the effectiveness of health programs in ensuring the access of the poor to the best possible health care in AIDS has never been assessed. It is clear that the government must control that costs and effects of state interventions are closely watched so that the costefficiency ratio may be increased [4] .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%