Development of New Drugs for TB Chemotherapy: Analysis of the Current Drug Pipeline
This report provides an overview of various anti-TB medications.
Community Planning
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Consultation on Ethics and Equitable Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS
This report presents the points discussed at a global consultation held in January 2004 on ethics and care and treatment for HIV/AIDS. The international consultation was convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
An Approach to Rapid Scale-Up Using HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care as an Example
This interactive resource aims to offer practical tools to nurses and anyone else involved in caring for patients, families and communities affected by TB including drug-resistant TB.
Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Drug Sensitivity Testing: An Overview of the Current Diagnostic Pipeline
This report provides an overview of various TB diagnostic and drug sensitivity tests.
Le Besoin d'Interventions Relatives au VIH et au SIDA dans les Situations d'Urgence
This pamphlet discusses the risk of exposure to HIV during emergency situations such as war, civil strife, disasters or epidemics, since many of the conditions that facilitate the spread of HIV are present in emergencies.
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AIDS Vaccine Handbook: Global Perspectives
This monograph reports on key scientific, policy, social, ethical, and economic challenges and the ongoing research for a vaccine that would prevent HIV transmission.
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Children and Tuberculosis: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic
ACTION’s analysis of the link between the burden of tuberculosis (TB) and the world’s most vulnerable children - those who are malnourished, orphans, or living with HIV - sheds light on a neglected epidemic. The report, Children and Tuberculosis: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic, is a reminder that TB is not a disease of the past and remains a leading killer, especially of children whose underdeveloped immune systems leave them particularly susceptible.
Speed Up Scale Up: Strategies, Tools and Policies to Get the Best HIV Treatment to More People, Sooner
This report outlines some of the strategies, tools and policies that have supported the scaling up of treatment during the past decade as well as those that can address persistent or new challenges. The results are presented from a 23-country survey of how consistently these strategies are being implemented. The findings demonstrate encouraging progress by some health ministries in adopting many of the enabling policies needed to facilitate scale-up and improve care. Nevertheless, the adoption and implementation of these strategies, tools and policies are lagging in some countries.
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