Speed Up Scale-Up: Strategies, Tools and Policies to Get the Best HIV Treatment to More People, Sooner
Where are we now?
For over a decade, people living with HIV, treatment advocates, clinicians, and health ministries have been grappling with how to ensure increased access to quality antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings.
Although there have been enormous strides over the past decade, constrained budgets and sub-optimal policies that are only slowly changing are impeding the effort to reach all people in need. In addition, too many people are still dying because they do not know they are living with HIV. And many people are being diagnosed with HIV late or fall out of care before starting treatment.
This report outlines some of the strategies, tools and policies that have supported the scaling up of treatment during the past decade as well as those that can address persistent or new challenges. The results are presented from a 23-country survey of how consistently these strategies are being implemented.
The findings demonstrate encouraging progress by some health ministries in adopting many of the enabling policies needed to facilitate scale-up and improve care. Nevertheless, the adoption and implementation of these strategies, tools and policies are lagging in some countries.
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