The authors conducted a systematic review to define the main features of PCC in sub-Saharan Africa and developed a framework for interventions to improve linkages to HIV care, treatment retention, and viral suppression.
PCC engages individuals, families, and diverse communities in the planning and provision of supportive and culturally appropriate health care services. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced additional barriers to achieving the UNAIDS Global Strategy to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.Ī recent journal article, written by JSI’s Center for HIV & Infectious Diseases staff and colleagues Malia Duffy, Caitlin Madevu-Matson, Jessica Posner, Hana Zwick, Melissa Sharer, and Antonia Powell, examines person-centered care (PCC), an approach that can lead to clinical improvements across the HIV care continuum. Supporting women, children, and youth through high-quality health services and evidence-based education initiativesĭespite being home to only 12% of the world’s population, 71% of people living with HIV live in sub-Saharan African countries. Preventing outbreaks of HIV and other infectious diseases and ensuring access to high-quality, comprehensive careĮxpanding access to life-saving vaccines and strengthening existing routine immunization programs Improving the systems that address the health and other needs of individuals for an improved quality of life Promoting healthy lifestyles and positive behaviors through innovative health communication practicesĭeveloping public health initiatives that reduce health disparities and build stronger, healthier communitiesīuilding sustainable health supply chains that deliver life-saving medicines to individuals and communities worldwide Strengthening the capacity of systems and stakeholders to achieve results Supporting comprehensive services for individuals with substance use and mental health disorders The analysis itself reveals that for the otherness of Sub-Saharan Africa some discourses are crucial: those of savagery, poverty, passivity of people and unwillingness to work and especially conservation of Africa in the past times, which has a special impact on perception of humanitarianism and economic neo-colonialism.Promoting evidence-based public health decision-making through applied research and evaluationĭeveloping innovative solutions to public health challenges through technological approaches
For this purpose, not only postcolonial critique of imaginative geographies is used, but also Marxist critique of neoliberalism because this theoretical approach is an added value of the analysis. The aim is to analyze the ideas of Sub-Saharan Africa and to critically interpret discourses of otherness of the region and its inhabitants.
Edward Said’s imaginative geographies are used as the key analytical concept – these are ideological images and visions of distant places emphasizing mainly their otherness. It is based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with Czech men and women regarding the respondents’ ideas about Africa and its inhabitants. This article provides an outline of imaginative geographies of Sub-Saharan Africa that can be found in Czech society.
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