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AIDS Care in the Americas
Rebecca Voelker
JAMA. 2000;284:686.
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After 2 years of meetings among health authorities, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has announced a new strategy to strengthen care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Americas. The strategy aims to meet comprehensive—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—needs of people with HIV/AIDS. It outlines scenarios for the provision of HIV/AIDS care according to the availability of resources and skills of health care professionals at several levels in the health care system: home care, community care, and primary, secondary, and tertiary care. The model emphasizes that at each level, a core foundation of care must be in place before more specialized or sophisticated services are offered.
"This is a common sense strategy based on reality and technical knowledge," said Fernando Zacarías, MD, coordinator of PAHO's Regional Program on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. PAHO estimates that 1.6 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean and another . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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