IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/gdm/wpaper/5510.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Universal antiretroviral treatment: the challenge of human resources

Author

Listed:
  • Till Barnighausen

    (Harvard School of Public Health)

  • David E. Bloom

    (Harvard School of Public Health)

  • David Canning

    (Harvard School of Public Health)

Abstract

WHO’s Towards Universal Access 2009 report documents a remarkable worldwide increase in the number of people receiving antiretrviral treatment (ART) – from 3 million in 2007 to 4 million in 2008 – creating hope that with sustained energy, universal ART coverage might be achievable (1). At the same time, the report emphasizes many challenges in delivering ART on a more massive scale. One challenge – the number and types of human resources that will be required to achieve universal coverage – deserves attention from a new perspective. In particular, we discuss the effect of feedback from current ART coverage to future ART human resources need on the sustainability of high lvels of ART coverage. But in order to think about the future, we first try to understand the past.

Suggested Citation

  • Till Barnighausen & David E. Bloom & David Canning, 2010. "Universal antiretroviral treatment: the challenge of human resources," PGDA Working Papers 5510, Program on the Global Demography of Aging.
    • Handle: RePEc:gdm:wpaper:5510
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pgda/WorkingPapers/2010/PGDA_WP_55.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Laura Di Giorgio & Abraham D Flaxman & Mark W Moses & Nancy Fullman & Michael Hanlon & Ruben O Conner & Alexandra Wollum & Christopher J L Murray, 2016. "Efficiency of Health Care Production in Low-Resource Settings: A Monte-Carlo Simulation to Compare the Performance of Data Envelopment Analysis, Stochastic Distance Functions, and an Ensemble Model," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(1), pages 1-20, January.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Antiretroviral treatment; human resources;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gdm:wpaper:5510. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Cinzia Smothers (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/degraus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.