Person-Centred Care
What Person-Centred Care does
The Person-Centred Care (PCC) programme, initiated by the IAS in 2021, improves health services by prioritizing the integration of health concerns and the responsiveness of healthcare services. This is to meet the changing needs, priorities and preferences of each person living with or affected by HIV. It emphasizes healthcare that empowers clients and is shaped by the many aspects of people’s intersectional identities, such as gender, age, sexuality and socioeconomic status.
Person-Centred Care in context
With access to effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), many people living with HIV are living longer than ever before. Person-centred care facilitates long-term treatment adherence and helps manage the range of health complications people living with HIV face, such as cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, liver disease, osteoporosis and neurocognitive disorders. By providing integrated and personalized support, person-centred care helps people live longer and healthier lives. Person-centred care also facilitates access to effective combination prevention for people vulnerable to HIV acquisition that prioritizes client empowerment, client choice and self-care and aims to overcome structural barriers to prevention services.
Thanks to the support from IAS PCC, we are breaking new ground and realizing our vision of providing holistic and person-centred care to individuals living with HIV experiencing homelessness and unemployment in the Philippines.
Rodenie Olete, Sustained Health Initiatives of the Philippines, Philippines
Person-Centred Care in action
The IAS Person-Centred Care programme:
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Builds consensus around the concept of person-centred care to support person-centred approaches; specific focus areas include harm reduction, ageing with HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights (including sexually transmitted infections) and tuberculosis
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Empowers people living with and affected by HIV to demonstrate improved ability to demand person-centred care, including treatment and prevention services
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Equips healthcare providers with the skills and motivation to provide services that respond to the complex health needs and preferences of their clients
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Documents and disseminates good practice models of person-centred care
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Strengthens the evidence base to inform delivery of integrated high-quality, person-centred healthcare services
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Upcoming activities
- Person-Centred Care Advocacy Academy, Paris, France – 13-15 October 2025
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In partnership with
The IAS Person-Centred Care programme is implemented with financial support from, and in collaboration with, Gilead Sciences. The IAS has full control over all the activities and decisions relating to, and forming part of, the Person-Centred Care programme.