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Saudi Arabia Is [A] Key World Bank Partner In Arab World
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The Global Fund has pledged nearly $1.2 billion to Eastern Europe and Central Asia through to 2010, about 55 percent into targeting HIV, and Kazatchkine ...
Iowa Has Record Number of HIV Diagnoses
RH Reality Check, DC - May 2, 2008
Randy Mayer, the department's HIV/AIDS and hepatitis program director, said it's important for good prevention and education messages to be brought to that ...
Holistic approach a must to combat HIV/AIDS
The Post, Pakistan - May 3, 2008
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Care Canada builds schools and water supply systems, funds HIV-AIDS prevention programs and offers emergency help when disasters strike. ...
Community to discuss the future of HIV prevention
Out & About, TN - Apr 30, 2008
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher Greg Millet?s work has addressed the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on black men, who make up ...
HIV/AIDS Ministry To Latinos Garners CDC Support
Georgia Bulletin, Georgia - May 1, 2008
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The Female Condom: Sexual Freedom Doesn't Come Free
AlterNet, CA - Apr 30, 2008
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In The KNOW: Educating Teens On Pregnancy Risks, Preventative Measures
Jamestown Post Journal, NY - May 3, 2008
In the same period, Berke explained, state mandates were issued for HIV/AIDS education, which was able to be tied in with the programs. ...
On the HIV/AIDS Frontline
RedOrbit, TX - May 1, 2008
After the Ugandan government recognized the HIV/AIDS pandemic threat and spearheaded efforts towards prevention, prevalence rates have gone down from more ...
Women honored for HIV/AIDS work at Red Ribbon Luncheon
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Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa: successes and challenges in scaling-up -
EM Stringer, M Sinkala, JSA Stringer, E Mzyece, I … - AIDS, 2003 - aidsonline.com
... a large-scale, NVP-based perinatal HIV prevention program is feasible and sustainable,
especially when drug and test kits are donated and start-up costs are ...

Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Programs to National Coverage -
HP Binswanger - Science, 2000 - sciencemag.org
... It has accelerated prevention programs in the military, the schools, and in the
programs supported by ... And it is catching up with the verification of the ...

… transmitted diseases in young Thai men: evidence for success of the HIV/AIDS control and prevention -
DD Celentano, KE Nelson, CM Lyles, C Beyrer, S … - AIDS, 1998 - aidsonline.com
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follow-up was actually ... began a vigorous HIV health education program in response ...

The Global Impact of Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs in Low-and Middle-Income Countries -
J Stover, S Bertozzi, JP Gutierrez, N Walker, KA … - Science, 2006 - sciencemag.org
... Reports. The Global Impact of Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs in
Low- and Middle-Income Countries. John Stover, 1 Stefano ...

[CITATION] … of Illness and Quality of Life Estimates for Use in Economic Evaluations of HIV Prevention Programs -
DP HOLTGRAVE, SD PINKERTON - Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs, 1998 - Kluwer Academic Publishers
... and this drives up the discounted cost figure. Fourth, costs now are expressed in
June 1996 dollars. As T increases, HIV prevention programs generally appear ...

… to Detect Early HIV-1 Infection for Use in Incidence Estimates and for Clinical and Prevention -
RS Janssen, GA Satten, SL Stramer, BD Rawal, TR O' … - JAMA, 1998 - Am Med Assoc
... month follow-up periods and for average incidence per follow-up period were ... studies
focused on early HIV-1 infection, and for guiding HIV prevention programs. ...

… impact of safer choices: a multicomponent, school-based HIV, other STD, and pregnancy prevention -
K Coyle, K Basen-Engquist, D Kirby, G Parcel, S … - J Sch Health, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Choices, a theoretically based, multicomponent HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention
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HIV Prevalence and Associated Risks in Young Men Who Have Sex With Men -
LA Valleroy, DA MacKellar, JM Karon, DH Rosen, W … - JAMA, 2000 - Am Med Assoc
... During the study's start-up, we conducted formative research ... and point to the need
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… Unaware They are Infected With HIV in the United States: Implications for HIV Prevention Programs. -
G Marks, N Crepaz, JW Senterfitt, RS Janssen - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2005 - jaids.org
... 2 to 3 years of follow-up in persons ... 45 For those aware that they are HIV + , the
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Sex Differences in Risk Factors for HIV Seroconversion Among Injection Drug Users A 10-Year … -
SA Strathdee, N Galai, M Safaiean, DD Celentano, D … - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2001 - Am Med Assoc
... Prevention programs should take into account the fact that women ... effect of trading
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Scaling Up HIV Prevention Programs Is Cost Effective

Scaling up HIV prevention programs can increase efficiency and thus prevent more HIV infections, according to a study published in the online open access journal BMC Health Services Research. Each doubling of a program's scale can reduce costs by around a third, and some large programs are ten times more efficient than smaller ones - meaning that many more infections are averted for the same amount of resources.

"Proven prevention methods need to be scaled up rapidly," says Elliot Marseille, the project director and lead author of the report. "Therefore, the fact that costs tend to go down as scale goes up is good news. This could save millions of lives, as well as keeping in check the number of new patients requiring expensive anti-retroviral therapies."
Larger prevention programs use money more efficiently than smaller ones, analysis of the "Prevent AIDS: Network for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" (PANCEA) project suggests. The study, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, seeks to improve HIV prevention funding allocation in low and middle-income countries.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) collaborated with local teams to collect recent cost and output data from 206 HIV prevention programs in India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Uganda. Six types of interventions were assessed including, voluntary counseling and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. And the team assessed relationship between scale (number of HIV prevention services provided) and unit cost (cost per unit of service).

The 'scale up - cost down' effect was seen across many countries and prevention approaches, with some large programs up to 100 times more cost effective than their smaller counterparts. But there is a threshold. When projects expand beyond a certain point, costs can start to rise - an effect noted in 2 types of HIV prevention interventions in India.

As more PANCEA-type data becomes available, researchers will be better able to predict these changes. "The global HIV prevention effort is rapidly increasing, with literally billions of dollars of spending anticipated in coming years." says James G. Kahn, the project's principal investigator. "We hope that research of this type will help programs better translate spending into HIV infections averted."

"HIV prevention costs and program scale: data from the PANCEA project in five low and middle-income countries"
Elliot Marseille, Lalit Dandona, Nell Marshall, Paul Gaist, Sergio Bautista, Brandi Rollins, Stefano Bertozzi, Jerry Coovadia, Joseph Saba, Dmitry Lioznov, Jo-Ann Du Plessis, Evgeny Krupitsky, Nicci Stanley, Mead Over, Alena Peryshkina, S.G. Prem Kumar, Sowedi Muyingo, Christian Pitter, Mattias Lundberg and James G. Kahn
BMC Health Services Research (in press)
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