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The UK Department for International Development funded the Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health to conduct a pilot study in Uganda to assess the health and health systems impact of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for improving access to pharmaceuticals. The specific remit was to examine issues of ownership, integration, coordination, implementation and impact, with a particular focus on the unique strengths and problems of these PPPs as distinct from other comparable programmes where drugs are competitively procured.

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All people with HIV/AIDS should have equal opportunity to access effective and appropriate treatment. Factors affecting access to treatment include existing social and health inequities, widespread poverty, high rates of new HIV infections, famine and budgetary constraints. Increasing access to HIV care and treatment must be organised in a manner that balances HIV prevention and treatment efforts, HIV interventions and the broader strengthening of the health system as a whole, and HIV care and treatment with other public health and social needs.

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