Improving access requires more than simply making our medicines available and affordable. The most important factors for long-term sustainability are strengthening health care infrastructure, ensuring adequate financing for health, and helping to build local health care capacity through training and support.

Public/private partnerships have a critical role to play in this process, drawing on the complementary expertise of all stakeholders — governments, international agencies, community organizations, donors, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, patients and others — to identify the most promising and efficient ways to address the impact of HIV and AIDS in a variety of resource-scarce settings.

In this section are examples of some of the many programs and partnerships Merck supports around the world to help address the challenge of HIV and AIDS.

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