Treatment Monitor: Health Systems

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has given rise to an enormous challenge to the current health system. Just managing to transform its orientation to building an integrated and decentralized system that reaches all citizens with implementation at primary health care, HIV/AIDS is a huge challenge. The mere numbers of people infected and affected with HIV/AIDS has been said to crowd out other diseases and other presenting illness that patients present at a health facility for. There are also concerns that health care providers who themselves are affected and infected need to be cared for and supported. The insertion of new and complex services for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS is in the process of being implemented and managed.

Health Systems has a number of content areas in relation to HIV/AIDS including:

• Integration and Decentralization
• Human Resources
• Health Information’s Systems

• DENOSA STRATEGIC CONSULTATION - TASK SHIFTING: considering legal and regulatory barriers. 17 and 18 MARCH 2008. Report edited by: Marion Stevens, Frayne F Mathijs and Nombulelo Bomela
• Performance and capacity of second generation Comprehensive Care Management and Treatment (CCMT) sites in Gauteng Province, Research Report, January 2008

Organizations:
Centre for Health Policy – Prof Helen Schneider
Centre for Health Systems Research – Prof Dingie Van Rensberg, UOFS
School of Public Health – Dr Uta Lehmann, UWC
Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Unit

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