Scaling Up Antiretroviral Therapy In Resource Poor Settings PDF Download

This annotated bibliography is intended as a resource for policy makers, programme managers and other personnel working in HIV/AIDS control in developing countries. The aim of this bibliography is to provide representative examples of developing country' experiences on the effectiveness and programmatic challenges for scaling up adult national antiretroviral treatment programmes. Given that antiretroviral treatment in developing countries is recent, and research in the field is still emerging, the articles for which annotations are presented here not only include examples from original research, but also published viewpoints, research letters, correspondence, etc. Though most articles are from developing countries, some experiences from developed countries that are of significance in the global context are also included. The selections are drawn only from published works in English published between 1999 and December 2003. This first edition of the bibliography hopes to provide answers to many of the questions faced by country policy planners in developing strategies for widespread access to antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS control in resource-poor settings. The bibliography should prove to be a useful reference in view of the recent WHO declaration of lack of access to antiretroviral treatment as a global emergency and the subsequent launch of the 3 by 5 initiative, i.e. to provide antiretroviral treatment to 3 million by 2005.