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Delivering equitable health care for people living with HIV &
AIDS
Publisher: Voluntary Service Overseas ,
2006
This policy brief from VSO highlights the crisis in delivering equitable
health care for people living with HIV and AIDS, and the overwhelming
burden it places on women and girls. It identifies changes that VSO is advocating
for and provides recommendations to key stakeholders for policy and programme
change. The document argues that the caregiver has a right to be valued,
supported and receive appropriate compensation and the patient has a right to
care of a high quality. Community caregivers are profiled and the impact on
women and girls assessed. The authors argue that this impact is unsustainable.
The document argues that policy and practice must change to reduce this burden
on women and girls. Also the authors highlight problems surrounding policy
accountability and highlight the importance of also holding governments and
international institutions to account on these issues. Three key changes are
put forward which could relieve the burden of care. First, caregivers must be
recognised for the support that they provide. Second, there must be a greater
involvement of men and boys in delivering home based care and third, public
health systems must be strengthened. Recommendations are also provided for
stakeholders and international institutions.
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