Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January – March 2008

Kenya's post-election violence in early 2008 created considerable problems for health services, and in particular, those providing HIV care. It was feared that the disruptions in services would lead to widespread treatment interruption. MSF had been working in the Kibera slum for 10 years and w...

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Autores principales: Reid, Tony, van Engelgem, Ian, Telfer, Barbara, Manzi, Marcel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-2-15
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Telfer, Barbara
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description Kenya's post-election violence in early 2008 created considerable problems for health services, and in particular, those providing HIV care. It was feared that the disruptions in services would lead to widespread treatment interruption. MSF had been working in the Kibera slum for 10 years and was providing antiretroviral therapy to 1800 patients when the violence broke out. MSF responded to the crisis in a number of ways and managed to keep HIV services going. Treatment interruption was less than expected, and MSF profited from a number of "lessons learned" that could be applied to similar contexts where a stable situation suddenly deteriorates.
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spelling pubmed-26347622009-02-03 Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January – March 2008 Reid, Tony van Engelgem, Ian Telfer, Barbara Manzi, Marcel Confl Health Short Report Kenya's post-election violence in early 2008 created considerable problems for health services, and in particular, those providing HIV care. It was feared that the disruptions in services would lead to widespread treatment interruption. MSF had been working in the Kibera slum for 10 years and was providing antiretroviral therapy to 1800 patients when the violence broke out. MSF responded to the crisis in a number of ways and managed to keep HIV services going. Treatment interruption was less than expected, and MSF profited from a number of "lessons learned" that could be applied to similar contexts where a stable situation suddenly deteriorates. BioMed Central 2008-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2634762/ /pubmed/19055803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-2-15 Text en Copyright © 2008 Reid et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January – March 2008
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title_full Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January – March 2008
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title_full_unstemmed Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January – March 2008
title_short Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January – March 2008
title_sort providing hiv care in the aftermath of kenya's post-election violence medecins sans frontieres' lessons learned january – march 2008
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