Scaling-up HIV treatment programmes in resource-limited settings: the rural Haiti experience

SP Koenig, F Leandre, PE Farmer - Aids, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To scale-up a successful HIV/AIDS treatment project and provide comprehensive
care to an entire Département du Centre (population 550 000) in rural Haiti, thereby …

Successes and challenges of HIV treatment programs in Haiti: aftermath of the earthquake

S Koenig, LC Ivers, S Pace, R Destine, F Leandre… - HIV therapy, 2010 - Future Medicine
Haiti’s HIV/AIDS program has been highly successful, with a declining HIV prevalence, and
long-term treatment outcomes that are similar to those of industrialized nations. The country …

What policymakers should know about drug resistance and adherence in the context of scaling-up treatment of HIV infection

JMA Lange, J Perriens, D Kuritzkes, D Zewdie - Aids, 2004 - journals.lww.com
With the imminent massive scale up of antiretroviral therapy in developing countries
concerns have been raised regarding the spectre of widespread viral drug resistance. These …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing health disparities through culturally sensitive treatment for HIV+ adults in Haiti

JG Devieux, RM Malow, MM Jean-Gilles… - The ABNF Journal …, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There is a critical need to deliver empirically validated interventions to underserved
populations. Haiti, the country most heavily affected by the AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean, …

Commentary: scaling up HIV treatment in resource-limited countries: the challenge of staff shortages

C Laurent - Journal of Public Health Policy, 2011 - Springer
Scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limited countries is a major challenge for
health professionals and program managers due to the large number of patients and the …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of community-based support services on antiretroviral treatment programme delivery and outcomes in resource-limited countries: a synthetic review

E Wouters, W Van Damme, D Van Rensburg… - BMC health services …, 2012 - Springer
Background Task-shifting to lay community health providers is increasingly suggested as a
potential strategy to overcome the barriers to sustainable antiretroviral treatment (ART) scale-…

An HIV/STI prevention intervention for internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti: study protocol for an N-of-1 pilot study

CH Logie, CA Daniel, PA Newman, MR Loutfy - BMJ open, 2012 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Haiti has the highest HIV infection rate in the Western hemisphere, with approximately
one in 50 people infected. The January 2010 earthquake led to the collapse of Haiti's …

[HTML][HTML] A psycho-educational HIV/STI prevention intervention for internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti: results from a non-randomized cohort pilot study

CH Logie, CA Daniel, PA Newman, J Weaver… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Little evidence exists regarding efficacious HIV and sexually transmitted infections
(STI) prevention interventions with internally displaced populations. Internally displaced …

[HTML][HTML] Improving access to care and community health in Haiti with optimized community health worker placement

C Champagne, AS Rajkumar, P Auxila… - PLOS Global Public …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The national deployment of polyvalent community health workers (CHWs) is a constitutive
part of the strategy initiated by the Ministry of Health to accelerate efforts towards universal …

Association-driven care and treatment: a model for community-based delivery of HIV/AIDS healthcare in resource-limited settings

SG Kassaye, F Ndayishimiye, H Binswanger, AY Sall… - AIDS, 2006 - journals.lww.com
In 1999, the leaders of various associations of people living with HIV/AIDS (APLWHA)
created AIDS Empowerment and Treatment International (AIDSETI), a non-governmental …