{"id":171,"date":"2007-03-30T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/03\/30\/developing-a-basic-package-of-pre"},"modified":"2007-03-30T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T05:17:11","slug":"developing-a-basic-package-of-preventive-care-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/03\/30\/developing-a-basic-package-of-preventive-care-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a basic package of preventive care in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#606060\" face=\"arial,helvetica\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hivinsite.ucsf.edu\/images\/masthead\/splash-logo-top.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a couple of years old but the idea resonates with more recent calls for horizontal programming to meet the wider health needs of populations with high HIV prevalence.&nbsp; The CDC created the <a href=\"http:\/\/hivinsite.ucsf.edu\/InSite?page=pa-hatip-42\">Basic Preventive Care Program<\/a>, recently mentioned again in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org\/daily_reports\/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=43917\">KaiserNetwork news summary<\/a>.&nbsp; <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<font face=\"Arial,Helvetica\" size=\"2\">In the last few years, there has<br \/>\nbeen a substantial increase in funding for HIV programmes, but how can<br \/>\nantiretroviral treatment be delivered in a setting where few people<br \/>\nhave access to even the most basic health care?<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"Arial,Helvetica\" size=\"2\">&#8220;To begin to cope with providing<br \/>\nHIV care in this context&#8221; said Dr. Mermin &#8220;we felt that it would be<br \/>\nimportant to prevent illness as well as treat it. particularly in rural<br \/>\nareas where the majority of people live several kilometres from a<br \/>\nhealth centre and heath centres have only limited diagnostic and<br \/>\ntreatment capacity.&#8221;<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"Arial,Helvetica\" size=\"2\">Rather than make people travel to<br \/>\ncare, his team explored what types of basic care could be delivered to<br \/>\npeople directly in their own homes, by providing people with as many of<br \/>\nthe tools for prevention of illness as possible.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"Arial,Helvetica\" size=\"2\">&#8220;Our goal was to develop a<br \/>\nstandard package of evidence-based preventions that will reduce<br \/>\nmorbidity and mortality among persons with HIV and lower the chance or<br \/>\nHIV transmission,&#8221; said Dr. Mermin.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"Arial,Helvetica\" size=\"2\">Since people with HIV live within<br \/>\na family and community context in rural Africa, the CDC approached<br \/>\ninterventions through the lens of treating the whole family&#8230; <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a couple of years old but the idea resonates with more recent calls for horizontal programming to meet the wider health needs of populations with high HIV prevalence.&nbsp; The CDC created the Basic Preventive Care Program, recently mentioned again in the KaiserNetwork news summary.&nbsp; In the last few years, there has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}