Abstract : This book "provides information and analysis to help policymakers, development specialists, public health experts, and others who shape the public response to HIV/AIDS to design an effective strategy for confronting the epidemic. It draws upon three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV; public health insights into disease control; and especially public economics, which focuses on assessing tradeoffs in the allocation of scarce public resources. The report offers persuasive evidence that, for the 2.3 billion people living in parts of the world where the epidemic is still nascent, an early, active government response encouraging safer behavior among those most likely to contract and spread the virus has the potential to avert untold suffering and save millions of lives. Even where the virus has spread widely in the general population, prevention among those most likely to contract and spread it is still likely to be the most cost-effective way to reduce infection rates." (EXCERPT)
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Web site : http://www.worldbank.org/aids-econ/confront/confrontfull/