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Science 23 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5474, pp. 2173 - 2176
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5474.2173
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Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Programs to National Coverage

Hans P. Binswanger

The most important issue in the fight against HIV/AIDS is how to scale up existing programs that are only reaching small numbers of people to the national level. Here, I present suggestions on how to tackle the daunting challenge of building truly national HIV/AIDS programs, based on insights gained from participatory, decentralized rural development experiences and from HIV/AIDS programs.

Rural Development and Environment for Africa, World Bank, Washington, DC 20005, USA.

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