J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Volume 78, Supplement 1, August 15, 2018
PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196380 May 15, 2018
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Supplement to the Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund
Practitioners and Policy Makers
Previous studies have highlighted a range of individual determinants associated with HIV testing but few have assessed the role of contextual factors. The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of both individual ...to-highlight medbox">and community-level determinants of HIV testing uptake in Burkina Faso.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacy of investments in public health, the persistence of profound economic and social inequalities and the fragility of many key global systems ...s="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and approaches.
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This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and
middle-income countries in 2022, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It incl...udes both
bilateral funding from donors and their contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and UNAIDS. Overall, the analysis shows that while donor government
funding for HIV increased between 2021 and 2022, this was primarily due to the timing of payments from
the U.S. government and not actual increases in commitments.
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Donor government disbursements to combat HIV in low- and middle-income countries totaled US$8 billion in 2018, little changed from the US$8.1 billion total in 2017 ...t medbox">and from the levels of a decade ago, finds a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
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Integrated Management of pregnancy and childbirth
Including a Tool to Assess the Adolescent Health and Development Component in Pre-Service Education of Health-Care Providers
Essential obstetric and newborn care is designed as a tool to help protect mothers and their children in adverse environments. It is intended for m...idwives, doctors with obstetrics training, and health care personnel who deal with obstetric emergencies.
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WHO has been alerted to concerns expressed related to the wording on episiotomy in specific situations. We have temporarily removed the publication from the website while we are doing a review of the evidence with in-house and external experts. We w...ill make the publication available on the website once the review is completed and any needed revisions are made. Please check the website!!!
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