Update on Country Activities, Presented at the First Meeting of the Contact Group (UNAIDS, 2000, 61 p.): Slide 4: PLUS: Care activities of high complexity or cost

Update on Country Activities, Presented at the First Meeting of the Contact Group (UNAIDS, 2000, 61 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Slide 1: Roles of countries and the UN in accelerating access to care and support
		Slide 2: A reminder of what we advocate: an essential care package
		Slide 3: PLUS: Care activities of intermediate complexity or cost
		Slide 4: PLUS: Care activities of high complexity or cost
		Slide 5: Country process
		Slide 6: Action plan
		Slide 7: Access to HIV-Related Drugs (UN Strategy)
		Slide 8: Swaziland
		Slide 9: Senegal
		Slide 10: Uganda
		Slide 11: Linkage with other UN initiatives
		Slide 12
		Slide 13

Slide 4: PLUS: Care activities of high complexity or cost

PLUS: Care activities of high
complexity or cost

· Antiretroviral therapy
· Management of difficult opportunistic diseases

· Comprehensive public services that reduce the impact of HIV infection

Now we are talking antiretroviral therapy, the mangement of difficult to treat opportunistic infections, and a comprehensive social security net.

We support the aspiration that everyone should have access to the highest possible standard of care and support. At the same time, the inequities of this world render this unrealistic for millions of people.

With initiatives like accelerating access, we have an opportunity to try to change this situation for the better.

You already heard that we will focus on work at country level within the initiative. I would now like to show how this is being implemented/Let's see how we envisage doing so: