Title: Setting priorities for HIV/AIDS interventions : a cost-benefit approach /
Authors: Brent, Robert J., 1946-
Publisher: Edward Elgar,
Year: 2010
Subjects: HIV Infections economics; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome economics; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Health Care Costs; Health Policy; AIDS (Disease) Government policy.; AIDS (Disease) Treatment Cost effectiveness.
Abstract: HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. I WHY COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES -- 1. Introduction to the book -- 2. Why not just simply do what is right and try to save lives? -- 3. Myths and misinformation -- 4. Counterintuitive results -- 5. What is wrong with setting any targets? -- 6. What is wrong with setting the particular MDG targets? -- 7. Cost-benefit analysis 101 -- 8. Cost-benefit analysis 201 -- pt. II HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE -- 9. Introduction to Part II -- 10. HIV and hunger -- 11. Nutrition and HIV at the individual level -- 12. Nutrition and HIV at the country level -- 13. Income as a factor raising HIV rates -- 14. Education as a factor raising HIV rates -- 15. Islam as a factor lowering HIV rates -- 16. Impact of HIV on agricultural households -- 17. Agricultural policy and HIV interventions -- 18. Sex and HIV I: the role of transmission -- 19. Sex and HIV II: the role of concurrency -- 20. Sex and HIV III: the role of networks