Research Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Unit for Health Promotion Research, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark.
Global Health. 2018 Jul 4;14(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s12992-018-0383-4.
Global spending for HIV prevention has been decreasing over the years. As a result, several low-income countries, including Nepal, are increasingly facing the challenge to minimize the funding gap to continue providing HIV prevention services to the people. In this paper, we have attempted to clarify why it is important to integrate community-based traditional and complementary healthcare systems and mobilize them into the mainstream HIV programs to ensure access to HIV prevention messages, HIV testing, and treatment in resource-limited settings.
First, we argue that the traditional and complementary healthcare practitioners can be mobilized to routinely provide HIV prevention messages to their clients, and, next, some of them can be trained to build their capacity to work as counselors or educators for HIV prevention in the community.
These approaches, if implemented, can help continue HIV prevention initiatives and contain the HIV epidemic at the local level in the rural communities with limited cost and resources.
近年来，全球用于艾滋病预防的支出一直在减少。因此，包括尼泊尔在内的一些低收入国家越来越面临着缩小资金缺口的挑战，以继续为人民提供艾滋病预防服务。在本文中，我们试图阐明为什么将以社区为基础的传统和补充医疗保健系统整合并动员到主流艾滋病规划中非常重要，以确保在资源有限的情况下获得艾滋病预防信息、艾滋病毒检测和治疗。
首先，我们认为可以动员传统和补充医疗保健从业者向其客户常规提供艾滋病毒预防信息，接下来，可以对其中一些人进行培训，以增强他们在社区中担任艾滋病毒预防顾问或教育者的能力。
如果这些方法得以实施，可以帮助在农村社区以有限的成本和资源继续开展艾滋病毒预防举措，并遏制当地的艾滋病毒疫情。
