Foreword—Engaging in Multisectoral Approaches Towards Achieving UHC

Multisectoral HIV/AIDS Approaches in Africa: How Are They Evolving?

Introduction The response to HIV/AIDS in Africa has evolved considerably since the first cases were reported on the continent in the early 1980s. After the initial medical and public health responses through the mid-1990s, there was an enormous expansion in the scope of the strategic approaches and level of political and financial commitment to fight the disease. In the absence of a vaccine or ...

Scaling up Multisectoral Approaches to Combating HIV and AIDS

Introduction The AIDS pandemic is a global crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come, demanding massive responses at many levels. Such responses need to continue to be grounded in the three core pillars of prevention, care and treatment, and mitigation. But these responses need to be much larger in scale, far more broadly based, and better connected so as to better match the sca...

UHC Presents Universal Challenges

The need for multisectoral food chain approaches to reduce trans fat consumption in India

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends virtually eliminating trans fat from the global food supply. Although several high-income countries have successfully reduced trans fat levels in foods, low- and middle-income countries such as India face additional challenges to its removal from the food supply. This study provides a systems analysis of the Indian food chain to assess i...

Strengthening human resources for health through multisectoral approaches and leadership: the case of Cameroon.

PROBLEM Cameroon has a severe shortage of human resources for health (HRH) and those that are available are concentrated in urban areas. APPROACH As the result of a national emergency plan for the years 2006-2008, innovative strategies and a multisectoral partnership - led by the Ministry of Public Health and supported by diverse national and international organizations - were developed to ad...