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Battling against the Epidemic of HIV Infection Ensuring that Ever

Primary Health Care: Open Access

ISSN - 2167-1079

Short Communication - (2020) Volume 10, Issue 1

Battling against the Epidemic of HIV Infection Ensuring that Everybody Counts

Shrivastava SR*1,2 and Shrivastava PS2
 
*Correspondence: Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (SBV)-Deemed to be University, India, Tel: +91-9884227224, Email:

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Abstract

Since the very much start of the HIV epidemic, the disease has remained a global public health concern. There is no doubt that a wide range of interventions have been done, which has resulted in a decline in the number of people infected or died because of the disease. Nevertheless, the gained successes are quite misleading as a significant amount of disparity and challenges have not been addressed yet. Acknowledging the global mission to attain universal health coverage, social stigma associated with the disease, and the reluctance of people to avail health care due to various reasons, the need is to build a response centered on the preservation of human rights, maintenance of equity and involvement of the local community. To conclude, in order to bring about an end to the epidemic, it is no longer an issue to provide appropriate health services to those who need them, but the idea should be to reach everybody through strengthening of the health sector, reforms in the policies, and involvement of all the concerned sectors.

Keywords

HIV . Vulnerable population . Stigma

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