International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors
Mohammad Karamouzian 1, 2
Navid Madani 3
Fardad Doroudi 4
Ali Akbar Haghdoost 1
1 HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
2 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
3 Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
4 UNAIDS – The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Tehran, Iran
10.15171/ijhpm.2017.110
Keywords
HIV
AIDS
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Subjects

We appreciate the insightful and thought-provoking commentaries by Kaplan and El Khoury1 and Modjarrad and Vermund2 about our recent editorial entitled “Improving the quality and quantity of HIV data in the Middle East and North Africa: key challenges and ways forward.”3... (Read more...)

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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 7, Issue 2
2018
Pages 199-200

  • Received Date 26 August 2017
  • Revised Date 10 September 2017
  • Accepted Date 04 September 2017
  • First Published Date 01 February 2018
  • Published Date 01 February 2018