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Priority interventions
HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector
Produced by the World Health Organization, Priority interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector is the definitive 'one-stop shop' designed to help countries, donors and other stakeholders expand and improve their response to one of the greatest health-care challenges of our time.
It includes everything from how to expand condom programming to the latest in treatment recommendations, guidelines and standards. Priority interventions is designed to be a 'living' web-based document that will be periodically updated with new recommendations based on the rapidly-evolving experience of health-sector scale up.
WHO press conference
Tuesday, 5 August: 11:00 a.m.
Press Conference Room 2, Media Centre, Hall A
A 'how-to' guide for scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support interventions in the health sector
WHO will launch a package of priority health-sector interventions designed to help
low- and middle-income countries scale up towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010. The publication is designed to be a 'living' web-based document that will be periodically updated with new recommendations based on the rapidly evolving experience of health-sector scale up.
Key message: A "one-stop" package describing priority interventions for a health sector response to HIV/AIDS
Attending:
- Dr Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director-General, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO
- Dr Teguest Guerma, Associate Director, HIV/AIDS Department, WHO
- Hon. Tony Clement, Minister of Health, Canada
- Hon. Teodros Adhanom, Minister of Health, Ethiopia
- Mr Mark Harrington, Director, Treatment Action Group (TAG)
media resources
Priority interventions package
English [pdf 1.39Mb]
Press release
English [pdf 119kb]
French [pdf 124kb]
Spanish [pdf 120kb]
Fact sheet
English [pdf 159kb]
French [pdf 161kb]
Spanish [pdf 166kb]
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