“IMPORTANCE OF CDVC HIV / AIDS PROGRAM DESIGN IN RESOURCE–POOR SETTINGS”
“IMPORTANCE OF CDVC HIV / AIDS PROGRAM DESIGN IN RESOURCE–POOR SETTINGS”.
BY
YESHWANT G. TRASI
FREELANCE U.N. DEVELOPMENT JOURNALIST
The prevention and treatment of HIV / AIDS, in resource poor settings presentenormous challenges. Many of the social and economic factors that make populations living in these settings vulnerable to HIV/AIDS such as poverty, malnutrition, and political instability conspires to create barriers to effective care delivery. HIV/AIDS is a complex disease entity with numerous associated interventions. Understanding how these interventions are related to each other and how local socio-economic factors influence them is critical to effective Program Design. Programs such as The Care Delivery Value Chain (CDVC) that account for barriers to care and integrate their activities to maximize the value they deliver to patients have been successful despite these challenging settings.
The Care Delivery Value Chain (CDVC) looks at care as an overall system, not as a series of discrete interventions, and describes the activities required to deliver care, illustrating their sequence and organization. Government Agencies, Philanthropic Organizations, and NGO’s can use the framework to improve HIV/AIDS care delivery. Key concepts include:
1.The CDVC framework allows one to outline and analyze the process of care delivery for a medical condition and provide maximize value for patients.
2.The CDVC framework can map the activities associated with HIV/AIDS care delivery in resource poor settings to illuminate effective linkage and coordination.
3.The CDVC framework allows synthesis of knowledge about the overall system of care delivery and provides a common language for improving it.
(The Writer is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) & Managing Consultant, Management Development Systems Consultants (MDSC), Bangalore, India. He is also a Freelance U.N. Development Journalist and Communications & Social Marketing Consultant, U.N.Global Compact).
BY
YESHWANT G. TRASI
FREELANCE U.N. DEVELOPMENT JOURNALIST
The prevention and treatment of HIV / AIDS, in resource poor settings presentenormous challenges. Many of the social and economic factors that make populations living in these settings vulnerable to HIV/AIDS such as poverty, malnutrition, and political instability conspires to create barriers to effective care delivery. HIV/AIDS is a complex disease entity with numerous associated interventions. Understanding how these interventions are related to each other and how local socio-economic factors influence them is critical to effective Program Design. Programs such as The Care Delivery Value Chain (CDVC) that account for barriers to care and integrate their activities to maximize the value they deliver to patients have been successful despite these challenging settings.
The Care Delivery Value Chain (CDVC) looks at care as an overall system, not as a series of discrete interventions, and describes the activities required to deliver care, illustrating their sequence and organization. Government Agencies, Philanthropic Organizations, and NGO’s can use the framework to improve HIV/AIDS care delivery. Key concepts include:
1.The CDVC framework allows one to outline and analyze the process of care delivery for a medical condition and provide maximize value for patients.
2.The CDVC framework can map the activities associated with HIV/AIDS care delivery in resource poor settings to illuminate effective linkage and coordination.
3.The CDVC framework allows synthesis of knowledge about the overall system of care delivery and provides a common language for improving it.
(The Writer is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) & Managing Consultant, Management Development Systems Consultants (MDSC), Bangalore, India. He is also a Freelance U.N. Development Journalist and Communications & Social Marketing Consultant, U.N.Global Compact).