Quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs / edited by Edward H. Kaplan and Ron Brookmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Edward Harris.

Brookmeyer, Ron.

SIAM Institute for Mathematics and Society.

Series:

Yale ISPS series.

The Yale ISPS series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Congresses.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Government policy--Evaluation--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How successful are HIV prevention programmes? Which HIV prevention programmes are most cost effective? Which programmes are worth expanding and which should be abandoned altogether? This book addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programmes, assessing several different quantitative methods of evaluation.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I: Evaluating HIV Prevention Programs: Context and Concepts

Chapter 1. Overview of HIV Prevention Programs in Developing Countries Michael H. Merson andJulia M. Dayton 13

Chapter 2. Implications of Economic Evaluations for National HIV Prevention Policy Makers David R. Holtgrave

and Steven D. Pinkerton 32

Chapter 3. Statistical Issues in HIV Prevention Ron Brookmeyer 55

Chapter 4. Epidemiological Issues in the Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs Nancy S. Padian and Stephen C. Shiboski 79

Part II: Cost-Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Chapter 5. Difficult Choices, Urgent Needs: Optimal Investment in HIV Prevention Programs Margaret L. Brandeau 97 Chapter 6. Methadone Treatment as HIV Prevention: Cost-EffectivenessAnalysis Harold Pollack 118

Chapter 7. Costs and Benefits of Imperfect HIV Vaccines: Implications for Vaccine Development and Use Douglas K Owens, Donna M. Edwards, and Ross D. Shachter 143

Part III: Case Studies

Chapter 8. Harm Reduction in Rome: A Model-Based Evaluation of Its Impact on the HIV-1 Epidemic MassimoArca, Teresa Spadea, Giulia Cesaroni, Marina Davoli, Annette D. Verster, and Carlo A. Perucci 175

Chapter 9. Evaluating Israel's Ethiopian Blood Ban EdwardH. Kaplan 189

Chapter 10. Feeding Strategies for Children of HIV-Infected Mothers: Modeling the Trade-Off Between HIV Infection and Non-HIV Mortality James G. Kahn, ElliotMarseille, and Joseph Saba 202

Part IV: New Methods for New Problems

Chapter 11. Design of HIVTrials for Estimating External Effects Tomas Philipson 223

Chapter 12. Estimation of Vaccine Efficacy for Prophylactic HIV Vaccines Ira M Longini, Jr., Michael G. Hudgens, and M. Elizabeth Halloran 241

Chapter 13. Health Policy Modeling: Epidemic Control, HIVVaccines, and

Risky Behavior Sally Blower, Katia Koelle,and John Mills 260

Chapter 14. Development and Validation of a Serologic Testing Algorithm for Recent HIV Seroconversion GlenA. Satten,

Robert S. Janssen, Susan Stramer, and Michael P Busch 290

Chapter 15. Issues in Quantitative Evaluation of Epidemiologic Evidence for Temporal Variability of HIV Infectivity Stephen C. Shiboski and Nancy S.

Padian 305.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Societal Institute of the Mathematical Sciences (the 14th in a series of research application conferences begun in 1974) held in July, 1998, in Divonne-les-Bains, France.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-72161-1

9786611721619

0-300-12822-3

OCLC:

923592091