Since the launch of UNICEF's global campaign, 'Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS' in 2005, there has been significant progress in scaling up care and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT).
Since the launch of UNICEF's global 'Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS' campaign in 2005, there has been significant progress in scaling up care and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
Beginning with a call to action at the XIII International Conference in Durban, South Africa in 2000, and reinforced by advocacy in support of universal access over the past seven years, there has been tremendous progress in scaling up HIV treatment, and to a lesser extent HIV prevention, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Access to care and treatment Since the launch of the Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS global campaign in 2005, there has been significant progress in scaling up prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV – and in provision of paediatric HIV treatment for babies born with the virus.
It was used to describe the progress in scaling up ART and retaining patients in care in Ethiopia.
In accordance with the above-described research needs, the objectives of this study were: (1) to describe the progress in scaling up ART and retaining patients in care in Ethiopia, (2) to identify the approaches employed to scale up ART in Ethiopia, and (3) to identify the interventions that have been implemented to improve retention in care in Ethiopia.
Although huge progress has been made in scaling up key malaria interventions, Ethiopia falls short of reaching either Roll Back Malaria RBMM)'s target goal of 80% coverage for key interventions [8] or Ethiopia's even more ambitious goal of 100% household ITN ownership and 100% access to diagnosis and treatment for fevers in children U5 within 24 hours [3].
MIS's have been conducted biannually since 2006 and are used by the NMCP to evaluate progress in scaling up malaria control interventions and to monitor levels of malaria parasite prevalence among children aged five years and younger [ 16].
Slow progress in scaling up finance has been a key bottleneck in negotiating a global climate treaty.
Moroso was speaking on the sidelines of a symposium held in London to evaluate progress in scaling up the intervention.
