HIV linkages Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

11/04/15 – HIV Decision Making and Linkages to Care: Research and Practice from Brazil

Posted on April 1, 2015August 21, 2018

Eliana Zucchi, MPH, and Sarah MacCarthy, DSc, will provide an overview of critical issues concerning HIV/AIDS in Brazil. Although Brazil is widely recognized for its successful response in making antiretroviral treatment free... read more →

“HIV and AIDS,” in The Right to Health: Theory and Practice

Posted on December 31, 2012August 21, 2018

This guide, written for and by health and human rights students and professionals, aims to present the foundations of public health and human rights with a specific focus on health. Cases from developed and developing countri... read more →

Women’s experiences in services for preventing the mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a literature review

Posted on December 1, 2012August 21, 2018

In the context of a rapidly evolving policy environment for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and the possible shift towards immediate initiation of lifelong highly active antiretroviral therapy (H... read more →

The pregnancy decisions of HIV-positive women: the state of knowledge and way forward

Posted on December 1, 2012August 21, 2018

Despite the growing number of women living with and affected by HIV, there is still insufficient attention to their pregnancy-related needs, rights, decisions and desires in research, policy and programs. We carried out a rev... read more →

Linking women who test HIV-positive in pregnancy-related services to long-term HIV care and treatment services: a systematic review

Posted on May 1, 2012August 21, 2018

Objectives: To quantify attrition between women testing HIV-positive in pregnancy-related services and accessing long-term HIV care and treatment services in low- or middle-income countries and to explore the reasons under... read more →

Mapping of Tools and Strategies on Human Rights and HIV Testing and Counseling: A Bibliography

Posted on January 1, 2011August 21, 2018

This project is part of an initiative led by WHO, in collaboration with UNAIDS and the Open Society Institute (OSI), to create a strategy and tools for policy-makers and programmers to integrate human rights into HIV testing ... read more →

“Universal Access: Are National Strategic Plans Sensitive to Human Rights?,” in From the Ground Up: Building Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care Programs in Resource-Limited Settings

Posted on January 1, 2009August 21, 2018

The title of this publication, From the Ground Up, reflects our desire to establish a new paradigm for sharing the enormous wealth of information stemming from over 20 years of HIV/ AIDS program implementation experience. By ... read more →

Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa

Posted on December 1, 2008August 21, 2018

South Africa is one of the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. At the peak of the epidemic, the government, going against consensus scientific opinion, argued that HIV was not the cause of AIDS and that antiretrovir... read more →

Emerging health disparities in Botswana: Examining the situation of orphans during the AIDS epidemic

Posted on June 1, 2007August 21, 2018

Botswana has the second highest HIV prevalence rate and highest rate of orphanhood in the world. Although child mortality rates have doubled in 15 years, the extent to which health disparities are connected to orphan status r... read more →