1st Edition
UN Millennium Development Library: Combating AIDS in the Developing World
By UN Millennium Project
Copyright 2005
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if... Read more
Executive summary * Epidemic and response * The epidemic * The response * The Millennium Development Goal on HIV/AIDS * Organization of the report * Prevention * Essential prevention interventions * Current coverage of prevention services * Targets * Priorities * Integrating prevention and treatment * Gender and HIV prevention * Community involvement * Issues and controversies * New ideas and technologies * Recommendations * Treatment * Essential care and treatment interventions * Current coverage of care and treatment services * Targets * Scaling up antiretroviral therapy * HIV and tuberculosis * Equity and human rights * Home-based care * Recommendations * Orphans and vulnerable children * Scope of the crisis * Needs * Interventions and policies * Recommendations * Finance and implementation * Estimating the cost * Current and projected resources * The Global Fund * Donor coordination * Overcoming capacity constraints * Roles for the United Nations * Recommendations *
Biography
The Millennium Projecct was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General and sponsored by the United Nations Development Group, which is chaired by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. The report is an independent publication that reflects the views of the members of the Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines, who contributed in their personal capacity.
