Countries reported disruptions in all health-care settings. In more than half of countries surveyed, many people are still unable to access care at the primary care and community care levels. Significant disruptions have also been reported in emergency care, particularly concerning given the impact... on people with urgent health needs. Thirty-six per cent of countries reported disruptions to ambulance services; 32% to 24-hour emergency room services; and 23% to emergency surgeries.
Elective surgeries have also been disrupted in 59% of countries, which can have accumulating consequences on health and well-being as the pandemic continues. Disruptions to rehabilitative care and palliative care were also reported in around half of the countries surveyed.
Major barriers to health service recovery include pre-existing health systems issues which have been exacerbated by the pandemic as well as decreased demand for care.
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Lessons from the Africa Regional Stigma Training Programme
Supporting community action on AIDS in developing countries
Locate, test, treat and retain (L2TR) Ghana campaign. 90-90-90 ending the AIDS epedemic by 2030
CIPH Curriculum for Best Practices. Putting Principles to Work
UNAIDS and DPKO non paper | 2011
A Cost-Efficiency Analysis for the Kyrgyz Republi
ПАКЕТ МЕР ПО РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ПОЛИТИКИ В ОТНОШЕНИИ ВНЕДРЕНИЯ НОВЫХ ПРОТИВОТУБЕРКУЛЕЗНЫХ ПРЕПАРАТОВ
Promoting People's Health to Enhance Social-economic Development
HIV infection, due to the immunosuppressant that leads, nowadays constitutes an aggravating factor of endemic tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remains a huge burden to human health, even in the early 21st century. The situation is deteriorating in many countries, particularly because of the synergy with t...he HIV epidemic and the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. The urgent development of new tools that can improve the diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of tuberculosis and other major mycobacterium diseases depends largely on the progress of basic and applied research. Faced with this situation, there is an urgent need for effective strategies and actions to permanently solve the problem of this endemic disease whose impact is too negative on people’s lives.
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Key populations brief
Accessed 2017