Healers abroad : Americans responding to the human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS /
Institute of Medicine (U.S.).Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S. Health Professionals.
Mullan, Fitzhugh.
Panosian, Claire.
Cuff, Patricia A.
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,
c2005.
In January 2003 President Bush announced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which is directed at 15 countries that are home to half of the world's HIV-infected people. PEPFAR's "2-7-10" goals are to treat 2 million infected people with antiretroviral therapy, prevent 7 million new HIV infections, and care for 10 million people who are infected with HIV or affected by it. This comprehensive, five-year strategy is part of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which Congress passed in 2003. Among other measures, the legislation calls for a pilot program to test how U.S. health care professionals and others with technical expertise could help meet the "2-7-10" goals through public service abroad. The federal Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator asked the Institute of Medicine to study options for placing such workers in the 15 focus countries.
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In January 2003 President Bush announced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which is directed at 15 countries that are home to half of the world's HIV-infected people. PEPFAR's "2-7-10" goals are to treat 2 million infected people with antiretroviral therapy, prevent 7 million new HIV infections, and care for 10 million people who are infected with HIV or affected by it. This comprehensive, five-year strategy is part of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which Congress passed in 2003. Among other measures, the legislation calls for a pilot program to test how U.S. health care professionals and others with technical expertise could help meet the "2-7-10" goals through public service abroad. The federal Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator asked the Institute of Medicine to study options for placing such workers in the 15 focus countries.
Introduction -- Confronting HIV/AIDS on the ground -- New routes of engagement against global HIV/AIDS -- Envisioning a U.S. global health service -- Programs of the U.S. global health service -- Looking ahead -- Information gathering workshop agendas -- Ethical issues in foreign health workforce assistance programs -- Assessing the human resource needs for expanding HIV/AIDS services in the 15 PEPFAR focus countries -- U.S. organizational experience with volunteer health programs -- E-health and the HIV/AIDS epidemic : using technology to support U.S. workforce expansion and local capacity building in PEPFAR nations -- ICT considerations to support PEPFAR activities -- Attributes of governmental and nongovernmental organizational models for the potential administration of the global health service.
AIDS (Disease)
Medical assistance, American.
World health.
HIV Infections