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        <description>Population and Health InfoShare : Newest 15 Documents by Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association. Sharing Knowledge to Improve Public Health Worldwide</description>
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            <title>PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY-BASED HIV/AIDS ADVOCACY</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4313_OUTphishare_083006PPP4CBhivAdvocacy.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Public-private partnership - also called PPP or P3 - is a system in which a government service or private business venture is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector organisations or companies, including NGOs. Typically, a PPP is dissatisfied with the impact and or processes of existing HIV/AIDS programs, products and or services available in the community, and has united to initiate actions and provide needed support for themselves (including their families and employees) and others that were impacted by the spectrum comprising HIV and its related diseases; and wants to effect and or influence changes that would visibly improve the health status of PLWAs, PABAs and the community at large. Although other approaches might be available – and indeed might have been used – to pursue HIV/AIDS advocacy nationally and internationally, there still remains an acute dearth of visible concerted effort at the community levels. A typical PPP for sustainable community-based HIV/AIDS advocacy may choose any or several system objectives depending on the peculiarities of its focus community. The sustainability of each community-based PPP’s advocacy projects and activities for HIV/AIDS depends largely on the partnership’s existing facts-backed knowledge-base of the current status of the pandemic and the efforts towards its control within the community. Although by no means compulsive, a quick success-checklist for a PPP engaging in community-based HIV/AIDS advocacy and aiming at sustainability must include factors that will help maximize chances of success, and those that indicate measures/degrees/extent of success achieved by the PPP in its advocacy drive. Sustainable development for every nation or community begins at home with the support of effective domestic policies; while the best way to capitalize upon these effective domestic policies is through building and nurturing local, national, and international public-private partnerships.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:36:27 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND NIGERIA’S DEVELOPMENT</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4267_Article_080806PPPuaa_Infoshare.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Public-Private partnerships or PPP relate to perceptions and practices affecting public private sector relationships in ensuring national/global health, development and well-being of the society, and the conceptual aspects of such relationships, including the role of the key players in collaborating to make these partnerships successful or otherwise.
Such collaborations will be especially productive in promoting poverty alleviation through micro-finance, enhancing health through partnerships as has been the case with polio eradication and other child immunization efforts. PPP objectives would also include bridging the information gap between the public and private sector organizations, analysing their capacities and opportunities, and suggesting mechanisms for improving the relationships between the government and the governed/citizenry. In order to achieve a sustainable PPP for ensuring the most effective, productive, compassionate, result-oriented and efficient use of resources, it is imperative that the members or subscribers to the partnership must adopt a single framework of action that provides the basis for co-coordinating the work of all partners. A potential outcome of this engagement is a private sector-led initiative, which could serve as catalyst for investment in community and national development projects, leading to more collaboration among the wide array of stakeholders in tackling the social, political, financial, technical and other obstacles that stand in the way of the projects being implemented. In undertaking any PPP project, it must be understood that partnerships rarely occur without external impetus. It must be noted, however, that greater output shall be realized if PPP agreements or contracts are structured in ways that do not place the poor majority in any social, economic and or political disadvantage. In order for government to deliver the minimum standard of services, products and or care required for a PPP to thrive, it must put in place, laws, regulations and institutions or enhance existing ones, as well as improve the enabling environment for private sector participation (PSP) in the provision and development of infrastructure to occur.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:27:24 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>NIGERIANS AND THE POVERTY WARS</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2578_OUTadirieje_110104Nigerians_and_ThePovertyWarsPHISHARE.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Poverty is the absence or deficiency of materials necessary for the maintenance of normal existence. Of late, poverty has also been described in terms of one living below the &#8216;poverty line&#8217;, i.e. the dividing line between incomes that are insufficient or sufficient to purchase or pay for one&#8217;s needs. Beyond shelter, clothing and food, poverty is also reflected in health, education, transport and capacity to take/implement decisions on one&#8217;s life. Declining or persistently low national budget to health and education institutionalize poverty. Our unemployment figures are still in the double digits, as able-bodied citizens, including graduates of various leanings and levels, are daily being disengaged from their existing government and private jobs under the guise of various economic terminologies. We all know also, that government/public sector ability, genuine commitment and attention to providing adequate funding from available resources, for the provision of basic socioeconomic infrastructure &#8211; good roads, healthy water and dependable electricity &#8211; have never been so poor. There have been chronic shortage or absence of social amenities in rural and poor urban areas, and increasing poor capacity strengthening or capacity building in the various fields. The time has therefore come for a realistic patriotic review and exchange of experiences in order to halt and reverse the prevailing and worsening poverty in the land. Various stakeholders in the Nigerian project are waging the poverty war from several fronts. In their effort to pursue various social and economic policies within their chosen fronts, little or no sincere and effective attention had been paid to the need to gain an understanding of the impact of the economic policies and programs being undertaken. As the implementation of these policies continues, opportunities to critically review their impact on the various segments of our society have hardly been created and or utilized. In order to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) which is to halve the number of people living in such poverty by 2015, we must now adopt and frankly pursue policy options for addressing health, economic, social, educational and infrastructure inequalities. Despite all the earnings of this country since the advent of both SAP and HIPC, the economies of many countries around the world have continued to be swelled and sustained with the resources of Nigeria. At a time like this, the Nigeria and Nigerians would benefit from an open and informed cross-ethnic dialogue on the subject of our un-abetting poverty regime. It must be noted that genuine dialogue enhances participation, and remains key to poverty reduction and development.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:57:48 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>HIV/AIDS: CARING AS AN OBLIGATION</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2577_OUTadirieje_110104HIVAIDS_CaringAsAnObligationPHISHARE..doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The twin issues of access to care and what manner of care for HIV/AIDS, deserve serious attention even as the world battles to provide antiretroviral therapies/drugs (ARVs) for its treatment. Holistic approaches to caring for persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) should be embedded in a typical &#8216;code of conduct for HIV/AIDS care&#8217;, which must be humane in its approach, universal in its application, adaptable in every circumstance and affordable to the patient community. Whether collectively and/or individually, it is imperative that the society should provide care for those living with HIV/AIDS and those directly affected by the disease, including orphans and caregivers, in the context of the UNGASS undertakings mentioned above. The unfortunate relationship between HIV/AIDS and malnutrition is already known and acknowledged. To fully utilize and benefits from the nutritional management angle to HIV/AIDS care, we must improve our understanding and knowledge of the interrelationship between nutrition and the disease. The most important message should be caring for or controlling HIV/AIDS goes far beyond just access to ARVs. In recognizing that medications for treatment of HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections are increasingly being provided, the dearth of infrastructure for implementing such strategies is another problem. School environment for HIV positive children and the role of teachers and education/teaching authorities are particularly important. Efforts at recruiting and training volunteers and family members to provide home and community based care (HCBC), must be enumerated/programmed in the proposed &#8216;code of conduct for HIV/AIDS care&#8217;. Caregiving as an obligation must not necessarily imply the provision of new buildings and other large equipments and infrastructure. T]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:52:40 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>DIABETES ON THE PROWL</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2576_OUTadirieje_110104DiabetesOnTheprowl.PHISHARE..doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Long before HIV/AIDS surfaced on the world&#8217;s health profile as an incurable disease, diabetes has been. Diabetes mellitus is of a great concern to the health and development community. It is of three forms. Type 1 Diabetes tends to develop suddenly, and requires that patients periodically inject themselves with insulin. Type 2 diabetes occurs mostly in adults of age thirty-five years and above. Because of its characteristic slow onset, type 2 diabetes manifests in its victims long after it has been ravaging their body systems unnoticed. Gestational diabetes occurs in pregnant women, and has pregnancy as its major risk factor. For women and other obese people, fat releases varying levels of hormones that can affect insulin resistance. Over the years, procedures for diabetes diagnosis have become increasingly simplified. Type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes and pre-diabetes could be diagnosed through blood tests, which measure the level of sugar/glucose in the blood. Nigeria should institute a National Diabetes Control Policy/Programme (NDCP).]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:49:19 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>BLINDNESS MORBIDITY AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2575_OUTadirieje_110104BlindnessMorbidity_NationalEconProductivityPHISHARE..doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Blindness is the absence or loss of the ability to see or the power of seeing or the faculty of vision. Worldwide, there are 45 million blind people, and this number could double in twenty years. For every minute that you spend reading this piece, twelve previously sighted persons, including a child, would become blind in the world. Among the causes of blindness are industrial/occupational accidents, cataract, trachoma, onchocerchiasis, childhood blindness, refractive errors and low vision. Others include such systemic diseases as HIV/AIDS, diabetes and hypertension. Blindness -especially in developing poor countries is compounded by the lack of resouces, political will and adequate baseline data on its prevalence and causes, which are needed to produce reliable national databases and programmes. , Vision 2020 - the right to sight, is aimed at increasing the awareness of blindness as a major public health issue. Unnecessary blindness is described as a blindness that should not have been, that could have been prevented and or controlled. From this writer&#8217;s experience in providing industrial/occupational vision services, uncorrected visual problems cause accidents and death in the workplace, during sports and social activities, and even at home. Blindness and low vision from whatever cause(s) are visual impairments that constitute considerable socioeconomic strains on both the individual and nation. Therefore, the need to understand the magnitude, geographical distribution and causes of blindness within communities, countries and regions, is essential for the design of effective intervention programmes. The time has come for visual impairment detection, prevention and management to be moved onto our community and national health agendas beyond rhetoric, through the ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL EYE CARE PLAN FOR NIGERIA]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:45:53 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>TOBACCO AND THE REST OF US</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2355_OUTphishare_081304Tobacco_TheRestOfUs.TheSUNnewspaper.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Originally, tobacco is a solanaceous, mainly American plant of the specie Nicotiana tabacum whose leaves have stupefying narcotic effects, and when dried, could be prepared and adapted for smoking, chewing and or snuff. Families rely on the cultivation and sale of tobacco for economic sustenance and social well being. In numerous ways, tobacco consumption for whatever reasons has its impacts on the health, economy and development of its producers and consumers, their families, communities and countries at large. Tobacco is probably the only commodity in existence whose manufacturers clearly warn that those who consume it are likely to die (young). One of the top health secrets withheld by tobacco companies, and unfortunately underemphasized by our unnecessarily over-commercialised national health systems, is that inhaled tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide. From the foregoing, it has become imperative, that conscious, sincere and well thought out national policies must be enthroned and religiously implemented in order to reduce tobacco-related deaths, disease and infirmities. At local levels, governments must institute policies for the cessation of smoking and treatment of tobacco dependence, as well as evidence-based guidelines and materials for overall implementation in relation to each country’s national health objectives and local circumstances, in order to ensure measurable public health gains for all. Countries should consider and adopt tobacco-cessation services/strategies for all ages of their population as necessary and proponent beneficial public health strategies for tobacco control, including efforts to prevent people especially young persons, from starting to smoke.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:19:34 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>THE GLOBAL FUND AND HIV/AIDS CONTROL IN NIGERIA</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2354_OUTphishare_081304The_Global_Fund_and_HIVAIDS_Control_in_Nigeria.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Global Fund was created by the United Nations as a unique global public-private partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, for attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. In certain countries however, CCMs exist and function like unnecessary octopus. In Nigeria, with a population of about 130 million persons, 250 ethnic/linguistic groups, 36 States (and Abuja) and 6 geopolitical regions, information on the Nigerian CCM, its activities, and its members that ‘represent’ the various constituencies involved in fighting these diseases is hardly readily available. How regularly have these representatives briefed their constituencies on their assignments, in both formal and informal settings? To continue to hold out hope to the millions infected and affected by the three diseases, and remain the broad partnership it was/is meant to be, the Global Fund and the country coordinating mechanism must truly employ sincere, transparent, proactive and people-oriented. A curious observation thoughis that more than 80% of the very ambitious objectives of Nigeria's CCM are projected for realization by year 2007, without any immediate and/or short-term components objectives.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:15:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>HIV AND AIDS: ENCOURAGING DISCLOSURE AND OPENNESS</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2353_OUTphishare_081304HIVAIDSencouragingDisclosure_Openness.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In a post-victory acceptance speech, a just-crowned beauty queen pays glowing tributes to the pageant’s organizers, her sponsors, supporters and admirers; and followed with a disclosure of her hitherto unknown HIV positive status. In analysing the circumstances leading to the emergence of this HIV positive beauty, as the most beautiful girl in the contest, it became clear that her sponsors – aware of her status- went beyond pronouncing Armageddon for her, and “confidentially adopted and nurtured” her. This definitely is what empowerment and fair treatment are all about. “AIDS no dey show for face” is a local saying relating to this disease. It must be emphasized that every one is at liberty to choose where to subject oneself for testing and who to disclose the result of the test to, whether positive or otherwise. Governments by their own inaction, inadvertently fuel people’s reluctance to disclose their status. In this era of globalisation and openness, every effort must be made to encourage everyone infected and affected with HIV/AIDS, to be open about their status. There are ways that stigma is unnecessarily tied to disclosure –or lack of it- and they question our focus on why disclosure and stigma are such topical issues about HIV/AIDS. Major fears and stigma/discrimination in HIV/AIDS exist because the disease is infectious, not well understood, and very likely to kill its victims due to the absence of available, affordable and effective remedies.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:07:15 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>HIV AND AIDS: ENSURING ACCESS TO ALL</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2352_OUTphishare_081304HIVAIDS_and_Access_To_All.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There is the need today more than ever before in human history, for all stakeholders - scientists, community workers and leaders, from all levels in all the fields, the public and private sectors, to have unlimited access and give unlimited sincere commitments, to all resources and opportunities for fighting the HIV/AIDS scourge head-on. Access to needed medicines and life-extending treatments (the so called LET strategies) is one other way of ensuring ‘access to all’ in the efforts to control HIV/AIDS. Expectedly, ‘access to all’ must include adequate nutrition and food security, the lack of which significantly complicates the management of HIV/AIDS, especially in the poor and developing countries. HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination are vital issues that must be tackled head-on if the intention and effort to ensure ‘access to all’ must be realised for all stakeholders and those affected/infected by the disease. In today’s world, not much might be accomplished if the problem of paucity of funding for research and intervention activities continues to bedevil HIV/AIDS. In addition to funding, it is quite imperative to improve the capacity of HIV/AIDS carers and concerned communities through regular training and education tailored towards the development of policy and advocacy skills and strategies/plans, enhanced understanding of HIV control and treatment/access issues.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:58:14 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>AFRICAN WOMAN’S ROUGH ROAD</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/2351_OUTphishare_081304AfricanWomansRoughRoad.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The roads of life within the African continent and some African communities in the diaspora are dotted with traditions, beliefs, practices and laws that have continued to subject millions of women to conditions that continuously militate against personal dignity, genuine sense of personal achievements, self-actualisation and integrated holistic development of the society. A majority of the African woman’s rough roads starts from the day her mother gets married or the day she becomes pregnant. As the African woman passes through her childhood, the society systematically inflicts pains and deprivation on her. Undone yet, the next bumps on African woman’s rough road include the outright shameless open-eyed discrimination she is subjected to within the family. In some societies, the African woman’s rough roads continue in married life with inglorious wife battering, neglect, deprivation and institutionalized social injustice. Depending on whether she has children for her late husband, and whether these children include male or not, the African widow’s civil war with her late husband’s family could be summarily executed or systematically fought. Absurdity takes the stage when her late husband’s family would decide and impose one of their sons on the widow as the new ‘husband or care-taker’ whether she so wishes, likes or wants him, or not. One of the first casualties of the family’s new ‘caretaker’ is the children’s welfare. This writer urges all stakeholders , to studiously implement programmes aimed at mobilizing increased resources at all levels, and documenting and disseminating lessons learned from them.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:51:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>ON PROGRESS MADE BY \'CCMs\' OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/1960_ON_PROGRESS_MADE_BY_CCMs_OVER_THE_PAST_TWO_YEARS.doc</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) are national 'partnership' agencies within each country for the effective implementation of the Global Fund's (GF) commitment to local ownership and participatory decision-making. However, CCMs exist and function like unnecessary octopus. Where do the responsibilities of the CCMs start and those of the government’s bureaucracy stop? For instance, information on the Nigerian CCM, its members that represent “the various constituencies involved in fighting these diseases” and its activities; is hardly readily available. How regularly (if at all) have these representatives briefed their constituencies on their assignments, in both formal and informal settings? It must truly employ new and innovative structures to bring the impacts of its activities in fighting these diseases, to bear on the poor village girls and market women. While visible measurable impacts of interventions are expected now, we must wait for five long years before we can assess the performance of Nigeria's CCM.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:05:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>HEALTH OPTIONS FOR ROAD SAFETY IN NIGERIA</title>
            <link>http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/nigeriahealth/message/81</link>
            <description><![CDATA[One hundred and eight years after the world’s first road traffic mortality (death) was recorded in 1896, more than 1.2 million people are still killed on roads worldwide every year and up to 50 million more still suffer various forms of morbidity (injuries and disabilities). Over the years, several road safety programmes have emphasised issues like acquisition and possession of driver's license, road permits, and vehicle insurance; including the need to check the state of the tyres, safety belts, spare wheels, lights, brakes, etc. Unfortunately, travelers, road safety officials and policy makers routinely ignore several health-related road safety issues, which occur before and during travels, and which might upset the human equilibrium and endanger safety to an even greater extent. Anyone travelling to spend more than five days in another environment, including traveling to the villages and other malaria-endemic areas during holidays and other festive seasons, must be aware that the duration of such visits and the traveller’s behaviour and lifestyle, determine the likelihood of exposure to many infectious agents. The traveller’s vision and eye health checks are extremely important. It is also a desirable road safety measure, to be armed with enough of necessary/regular personal, toilet and sanitary items that would last the duration of the trip, unless one is sure of their availability at the travel destination is assured. Wherever possible, road users/travelers should be armed with their health/medical information.. Suffice it to advise that travelers must be careful of what and where they eat before and during every trip. It must be emphasized that the loss and sufferings associated with road traffic deaths and injuries are almost always preventable.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:57:40 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>MALARIA IN AFRICA: A CONTINUING SCOURGE, A LITANY OF FAILED TARGETS</title>
            <link>http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/nigeriahealth/message/79</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In year 2000, African leaders at the Abuja conference on Roll-Back malaria issued the Abuja Declaration in which they declared that malaria accounts for about one million deaths annually in Africa. Today, tens of thousands of the continent's children and nursing mothers still die annually from malaria. In Nigeria alone, malaria accounts for 30 per cent of death in children less than 5 years of age and 11 per cent of deaths among pregnant women. Practical anti-malaria strategies that have been brought into the field of all stakeholders; and financial resource that have been committed to laboratory research for the development of a vaccine against malaria by the continent have hardly been significant. The continent has probably more resources to hosting and attending conferences on malaria, than she has commensurately spent in intervention measures against the disease, in order to achieve the Abuja Declaration's target of halving Africa's malaria mortality by 2010, through implementing the strategies and actions for Roll Back Malaria. More needs to be done to contain malaria in Nigeria and Africa, apart from conferences and conferences.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:32:47 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>We want more access to care but what care?</title>
            <link>http://archives.healthdev.net/af-aids/msg01061.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In order to ensure more access care, the fundamental elements of any effective response to HIV care should be embedded in a ‘code of conduct for HIV/AIDS care’, which must be humane in its approach, universal in its application, adaptable in every circumstance and affordable to the patient community. About 90 percent of people living with the disease do not have access to anti-retroviral therapies. This writer is particularly advocating that provisions be made for ensuring ‘technical and system capacity, differential pricing and alternatives’ provide the functional fulcrum for a most sincere and effective approach to AIDS care and cure. In broad terms therefore, it could be said that nutritional care for HIV/AIDS should necessarily include considerations for such factors like HIV disease progression and implications for immunity and nutritional status, HIV related complications like diarrhoea, weight loss, loss of appetite, etc. It includes the role of anti-oxidants and other micronutrients in HIV; support for children with HIV, food security, food safety and hygiene. It would also include nutrition education, communication and counselling for PLWAs, implementation and integration of well-thought-out nutritional care and support in programmes/ policies, which must take into consideration all necessary practical work on translation and dissemination of guidelines into culturally specific recommendations, preparation of recipes and nutrition education. Care for PLWAs must go far beyond just access to ARVs. -poor settings.]]></description>
            <author>afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com (Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:54:34 +0100</pubDate>
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