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UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board issue recommendations on linking TB and HIV |
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The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board,
- Recognises the commitment to the goal of scale-up to Universal Access at the 2006 High Level Meeting on AIDS as a determination to address the urgent threat that TB, particularly drug-resistant TB, poses to people living with HIV;
- Calls upon member states to mobilize community involvement, including faith based organizations and affected communities, in addressing the prevention and treatment of TB in people living with HIV, including issues of stigma, human rights, migrants and other marginalized populations and, adherence support;
- Requests the UNAIDS Secretariat with WHO to establish mechanisms for accountability of HIV programmes to prevent, diagnose and treat TB in people living with HIV, through the incorporation of relevant indicators in national AIDS action frameworks, which include the goal of reducing TB mortality in people living with HIV;
- Recognizes the need for a person-centred approach, that is “one life - two diseases” and calls on member states to deliver integrated TB and HIV services that provide adequate TB infection control in HIV care settings;
- Requests UNAIDS and WHO to advocate for the inclusion of TB prevention and treatment for people living with HIV in national AIDS action frameworks, as part of the multi-sectoral approach to HIV, and in building the capacity of affected communities to respond to the dual epidemics of TB and HIV;
- Calls upon the international community, including governments, to address the resource gap for the prevention and treatment of TB in people living with HIV through its inclusion in the broader development agenda;
- Requests UNAIDS and WHO to work with relevant partners to accelerate research and development of better tools for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB in people living with HIV;
- Calls on UNAIDS to use the decisions of the 22nd Programme Coordinating Board in its work at the global level on TB and HIV through high-level events such as the HIV-TB Global Leaders Forum to be held in New York on 9 June 2008;
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Two new open access journals |
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Both journals aim to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field. The emphasis will be on publishing quality articles rapidly and making them freely available to researchers worldwide. All articles are deposited immediately upon publication in at least one widely and internationally recognized open access repository, such as Medline, PubMed Central. Moreover, all articles are indexed by PubMed, Google and Google Scholar, therefore providing the maximum exposure to the articles. |
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About Evidence for Action |
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Effective prevention, treatment and care services are essential to reduce the appalling waste of human life due to HIV, which has killed over 25 million people since the start of the epidemic, with 2.8m dying in 2005 alone. Evidence for Action is a five-year international research programme with core funding from the UK Department for International Development. The Evidence for Action consortium focuses on HIV treatment and care systems. The goal of the research programme is to contribute to knowledge on how to design, manage and deliver comprehensive HIV treatment and care programmes in resource poor settings. The partners to this consortium are leaders in research into HIV care for children and adults, and systems of delivery. They also include experts in policy and advocacy work, and civil society strengthening. Bringing these institutions together will deliver research solutions that can be translated into policy and actions rapidly and on a large scale in developing countries. |
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