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Strategies to integrate community-based traditional and complementary healthcare systems into mainstream HIV prevention programs in resource-limited settings

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, July 2018
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Title
Strategies to integrate community-based traditional and complementary healthcare systems into mainstream HIV prevention programs in resource-limited settings
Published in
Globalization and Health, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12992-018-0383-4
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Subash Thapa, Arja R. Aro

Abstract

Global spending for HIV prevention has been decreasing over the years. As a result, several low-income countries, including Nepal, are increasingly facing the challenge to minimize the funding gap to continue providing HIV prevention services to the people. In this paper, we have attempted to clarify why it is important to integrate community-based traditional and complementary healthcare systems and mobilize them into the mainstream HIV programs to ensure access to HIV prevention messages, HIV testing, and treatment in resource-limited settings. First, we argue that the traditional and complementary healthcare practitioners can be mobilized to routinely provide HIV prevention messages to their clients, and, next, some of them can be trained to build their capacity to work as counselors or educators for HIV prevention in the community. These approaches, if implemented, can help continue HIV prevention initiatives and contain the HIV epidemic at the local level in the rural communities with limited cost and resources.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 34 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 15%
Researcher 4 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 12%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 11 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 6 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 12%
Social Sciences 4 12%
Psychology 2 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 12 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 July 2018.
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#4,046,708
of 23,094,276 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#597
of 1,113 outputs
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#78,084
of 328,026 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#24
of 31 outputs
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