Improving access to HIV/AIDS-related services through Public Private Partnership.

As the follow up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2002), ESCAP developed a project entitled “Providing Basic Services to the Poor through Public-Private Partnerships.” Initiated in January 2003, the ESCAP project encompassed water, energy, health and bio-diversity. The health component of the ESCAP project was located in Thailand and was referred to as the “Partners for Health” (PfH) project.

The PfH project aimed to improve access for people living with HIV/AIDS to quality-assured HIV/AIDS related services through public-private-community partnership. This was to be achieved through establishing an income-generation system capable of sustaining the delivery of health-care services to PLWHA project beneficiaries.

For more information about PHP project, please refer to:

Community-Level Good Practices in HIV Prevention, Care and Support for Policy Consideration: Two Case Studies from the Community (2005) ST/ESCAP/2355