Rethinking HIV : smarter ways to invest in ending HIV in sub-Saharan Africa /

Rethinking HIV : smarter ways to invest in ending HIV in sub-Saharan Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	xxi, 363 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	RethinkHIV (Project) AIDS (Disease) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Prevention. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control -- Africa South of the Sahara. HIV Infections -- prevention & control -- Africa South of the Sahara. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- economics -- Africa South of the Sahara. Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Africa South of the Sahara. HIV Infections -- economics -- Africa South of the Sahara. AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention. Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8942100

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Other authors / contributors:	Lomborg, Bjørn, 1965-
ISBN:	9781107028692 (hardback) 1107028698 (hardback) 9781107679320 (pbk.) 110767932X (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Thirty years after the identification of the disease that became known as AIDS, humanitarian organizations warn that the fight against HIV/AIDS has slowed, amid a funding shortfall and donor fatigue. In this book, Bjørn Lomborg brings together research by world-class specialist authors, a foreword by UNAIDS founding director Peter Piot and perspectives from Nobel Laureates and African civil society leaders to identify the most effective ways to tackle the pandemic across sub-Saharan Africa. There remains an alarming lack of high-quality data evaluating responses to HIV. We still know too little about what works, where and how to replicate our successes. This book offers the first comprehensive attempt by teams of authors to analyze HIV/AIDS policy choices using cost-benefit analysis, across six major topics. This approach provides a provocative fresh look at the best ways to scale up the fight against this killer epidemic"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
Part I. The Research
1. Prevention of sexual transmission
2. Alternative perspective: prevention of sexual transmission
3. Alternative perspective: prevention of sexual transmission
4. Prevention of non-sexual transmission
5. Alternative perspective: prevention of non-sexual transmission
6. Alternative perspective: prevention of non-sexual transmission
7. Treatment
8. Alternative perspective: treatment
9. Alternative perspective: treatment
10. Strengthening health systems
11. Alternative perspective: strengthening health systems
12. Alternative perspective: strengthening health systems
13. Social policy
14. Alternative perspective: social policy
15. Alternative perspective: social policy
16. Vaccine research and development
17. Alternative perspective: vaccine research and development
18. Alternative perspective: vaccine research and development
Part II. Ranking the Opportunities
19. Findings of the Nobel Laureate economist expert panel
20. Findings from African civil society
21. Conclusion