As the 2019 World AIDS Day campaign focused on the difference that communities make, we run a twelve-day online campaign in Arabic, English and in French, highlighting various realities, demands and actions pertaining to PLHIV, prevention, perception and treatment. With the renewed permission to adapt UNAIDS content, we developed the Arabic version of the 2018 Test Test, and started working on the Beirut Pride lexicon. Partnering for the first time with WHO (Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean) we highlight the importance of integrated people-centered health services — the whole complemented with the rebranding of Beirut Pride’s website.
A screenshot of the the rebranding of Beirut Pride’s website.
The Test Test in Arabic
Integrated people-centered health services
organize and manage services
so that
we get the comprehensive prevention and care we need, when we need it, and in a fashion that respects our dignity;
we can access quality, comprehensive, safe, timely and easy to navigate health care;
health workers, including community health workers, provide comprehensive and coordinated health services;
we are engaged and informed to participate in making decisions and taking actions for our own health.
benefit us, PLHIV and others,
in a fashion that
improves our continuous access to integrated care with reduced costs and reduced time-consuming multiple visits to health services, particularly for the most vulnerable among us;
increases our ability to self-manage HIV and to control long-term engagement with health care;
builds trust and better relationships with health care providers;
reduces stigma and discrimination.
benefit public health
in a fashion that
minimizes missed opportunities to diagnose people living with HIV and to link them to care and treatment;
efficiently diagnoses and manages related health conditions such as STIs, tuberculosis, hepatitis and cervical cancer as well as other services related to sexual and reproductive health and the management of gender-based violence;
improves the adherence of PLHIV to HIV treatment and to other conditions when multiple interventions are required;
minimizes duplication of work between different providers;
improves health outcomes, ensuring dignity and equity for all;
saves health system costs through a more efficient health delivery and a better resource allocation;
improves access to health care for migrants, displaced individuals and refugees, particularly in humanitarian settings.
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