Integrating HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections with Primary Health Care – Learning from countries

This WHO policy brief highlights progress and lessons learned from efforts to converge, link and integrate HIV, viral hepatitis, and STIs services with primary health care in several low- and middle-income countries. The overall experiences from selected countries in this brief – Angola, Botswana, Brazil, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Rwanda, Viet Nam, and Zambia – show varied challenges, approaches and outcomes aligned with the 4 strategic and 10 operational levers described in the WHO/UNICEF PHC Operational Framework. Countries that prioritized 4 or more areas at the same time – achieved the most sustainable results.