Strategies to integrate community-based traditional and complementary healthcare systems into mainstream HIV prevention programs in resource-limited settings.
Global Health
; 14(1): 64, 2018 07 04.
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| ID: mdl-29973230
BACKGROUND: Global spending for HIV prevention has been decreasing over the years. As a result, several low-income countries, including Nepal, are increasingly facing the challenge to minimize the funding gap to continue providing HIV prevention services to the people. In this paper, we have attempted to clarify why it is important to integrate community-based traditional and complementary healthcare systems and mobilize them into the mainstream HIV programs to ensure access to HIV prevention messages, HIV testing, and treatment in resource-limited settings. MAIN BODY: First, we argue that the traditional and complementary healthcare practitioners can be mobilized to routinely provide HIV prevention messages to their clients, and, next, some of them can be trained to build their capacity to work as counselors or educators for HIV prevention in the community. CONCLUSION: These approaches, if implemented, can help continue HIV prevention initiatives and contain the HIV epidemic at the local level in the rural communities with limited cost and resources.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Terapias Complementarias
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Infecciones por VIH
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Servicios de Salud Comunitaria
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Recursos en Salud
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Medicina Tradicional
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Global Health
Año:
2018
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Dinamarca
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido