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Breaking the cycle : ensuring equitable access to HIV treatment for women and girls

FLEISCHMAN, Janet
February 2004

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Outlines the situation of women and girls with regard to vulnerability to HIV and access to treatment. Makes recommendations for US policy reflecting the links between abuses against women and girls, and HIV/AIDS. Describes treatment programmes in Botswana and South Africa, and work around community mobilization and the involvement of civil society in ensuring access to ARV treatment

Expanding antiretroviral treatment in developing countries creates critical new challenges

MORRISON, J Stephen
June 2002

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Summarizes and describes the challenges and policy implications for scaling up ARV provision in developing countries. It identifies six core challenges: expanding health system capacity; affordability of treatment regimens; integrating and strengthening prevention activities; adverse side effects; drug resistance; and the needs of a growing population of people living with HIV

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