A WHO public health approach to ending AIDS in the global south / Charles Gilks and Yibeltal Alemu.

Recognising and addressing inequity in the global HIV/AIDS response -- "3by5" -- coming to grips with the AIDS treatment gap -- Unpacking the WHO Public Health Approach to ART -- Keeping the Public Health Approach fit for purpose -- Ending AIDS and planning for Endemic HIV -- Chronic non-communicable diseases as a global public health challenge -- Unpacking the chronic non-communicable diseases agenda -- The NCDs : increasingly important, still neglected and in crisis -- A public health approach to scale up NCD control interventions -- Health and the Universal Health Coverage agenda -- Strategies for achieving Universal Health Coverage -- Progress and challenges for Universal Health Coverage -- The Public Health Approaches towards Universal Health Coverage.

In highlighting how a WHO Public Health Approach (PHA) has been successfully used in developing countries to provide HIV/AIDS patients with antiretroviral therapy (ART), this important book provides a template for how the PHA can be implemented to treat other chronic but non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as well. With over 28 million people globally now receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS, it's clear there are lessons to be learnt from the provision of ART which have great relevance for NCD care and towards achieving universal health coverage in the global south. The first section of the book provides a detailed overview of the strategy that enabled such a successful programme to be taken place, the challenges faced and its evolution over time. The book then moves on to assert that by approaching other chronic NCDs in a similar way, focussing on populations with integrated long-term and short-term person-centred care, there is a pathway towards universal health care and Universal Health Coverage across the developing world. Discussing many of the most pressing diseases and public health issues affecting these regions, this book provides global health scholars and practitioners with a detailed analysis of the challenges faced in tackling these diseases, but also an integrated person-centred health-care approach by which these challenges may be met.