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Quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs [electronic resource] / edited by Edward H. Kaplan and Ron Brookmeyer. - Yale University Press, c2002. - 1 online resource (x, 335 p.) : ill. - The Yale ISPS series . - Yale ISPS series. .

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.

Overview of HIV prevention programs in developing countries / Michael H. Merson and Julia M. Dayton -- Implications of economic evaluations for national HIV prevention policy makers / David R. Holtgrave and Steven D. Pinkerton -- Statistical issues in HIV prevention / Ron Brookmeyer -- Epidemiological issues in the evaluation of HIV prevention programs / Nancy S. Padian and Stephen C. Shiboski -- Difficult choices, urgent needs: optimal investment in HIV prevention programs / Margaret L. Brandeau -- Methadone treatment as HIV prevention: cost-effectiveness analysis / Harold Pollack -- Costs and benefits of imperfect HIV vaccines: implications for vaccine development and use / Douglas K. Owens, Donna M. Edwards, and Ross D. Shachter -- Harm-reduction in Rome: a model-based evaluation of its impact on the HIV-1 epidemic / Massimo Arcà, Teresa Spadea, Giulia Cesaroni, Marina Davoli, Annette D. Verster, and Carlo A. Perucci -- Evaluating Israel's Ethiopian blood ban / Edward H. Kaplan -- Feedubg strategies for children of HIV-infected mothers: modeling the trade-off between HIV infection and non-HIV mortality / James G. Kahn, Elliot Marseille, and Joseph Saba -- Design of HIV trials for estimating external effects / Thomas Philipson -- Estimation of vaccine efficacy for prophylactic HIV vaccines / Ira M. Longini, Jr., Michael G. Hudgens, and M. Elizabeth Halloran -- Health policy modeling: epidemic control, HIV vaccines, and risky behavior / Sally Blower, m Katia Koelle, and John Mills -- Development and validation of a serologic testing algorithm for recent HIV seroconversion / Glen A. Satten, Robert S. Janssen, Susan Stramer, and Michael P. Busch -- Issues in quantitative evaluation of epidemiologic evidence for temporal variability of HIV infectivity / Stephen C. Shiboski and Nancy S. Padian.

ISBN: 9780300128222 (electronic bk.) 0300128223 (electronic bk.) 9780300087512 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300087519 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Congresses.
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Government policy--Evaluation--Congresses.
HIV Infections--prevention and control--United States--Congresses.
Evaluation Studies as Topic--United States--Congresses.
Primary Prevention--organization & administration--United States--Congresses.
Program Development--methods--United States--Congresses.
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention.
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Government policy--Evaluation.
Sida--Prévention--Congrès.
Sida--Prévention--Politique gouvernementale--Évaluation--Congrès.
MEDICAL--AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--AIDS & HIV.

Subjects--Index Terms: შიდსი (ავადმყოფობა) პრევენცია კონფერენციები და სიმპოზიუმები

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA643.8 / .Q36 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1/969792

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 616.9(063)

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2002 B-648 WC 503.6 / Q15 2002