Scaling up health promotion interventions in the era of HIV/AIDS: Challenges for a rights based approach
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Date
2005
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Oxford University Press
Abstract
A sustained scaled up response to global public health
challenges such as HIV/AIDS will require a functioning and
efficient health system, based on the foundation of strong
primary healthcare. Whilst this is necessary, it is not
sufficient. Health promotion strategies need to be put into
place to better engage and support families and communities
in preventing disease, optimize caring, creating the demand
for services and holding service providers to account. There
will have to be a move away from the traditional model
whereby the problem of HIV/TB/malaria is to be solved by
merely increasing resources to a centralized bureaucracy
that tries to increase the supply of services including health
promotion messages.
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Public health, HIV, World Health Organization, Human Rights, Social and Cultural Rights
Citation
Chopra, M., & Ford, N. (2005). Scaling up health promotion interventions in the era of HIV/AIDS: Challenges for a rights based approach. Health Promotion International, 20 (4). 383-390. 10.1093/heapro/dai018