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Table 1 Health technology for mitigating HIV/AIDS (simplified to illustrate)

From: HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies and the State in sub-Saharan Africa – the missing link?

 

Health technology interventions/mitigation strategies

 

Behavioural and Educational prevention

Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Antiretroviral Therapy

Human capital/expertise

Field-based (including peer) health educators and promoters

Nursing-level

Medical-level

Physical Infrastructure

Minimal, community meeting, radio/TV campaigns

Health centres

Health centres, hospital and laboratory facilities

Organisation

Local community level

Intermediate – drug and monitoring network

Coordinated drug and laboratory network, treatment monitoring

Technology, resource, and coordination needs

Low

Medium

high

  1. Source: Authors