AIDS : taking a long-term view
AIDS is a continuing worldwide health crisis. Over 25,000,000 people have died from AIDS, and more than 33,000,000 are infected today. While treatments in the developed world have moved AIDS from a fatal to a chronic, highly expensive disease, it remains the sixth greatest cause of death globally an...
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FT Press
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Executive summary
- Possible futures of the pandemic: opportunities and challenges
- The vision of aids2031
- AIDS timeline
- List of acronyms
- Chapter 1: The future of AIDS: a still-unfolding global challenge
- Reflecting on the past, looking toward the future
- What the history of AIDS may tell us about the future
- Epidemics often differ radically within and between countries and regions
- The pandemic is constantly evolving
- The evolution of each epidemic is affected by its social, economic, and physical environment
- The epidemic has become firmly entrenched in Southern Africa
- AIDS discriminates
- The pandemic's history cautions us to anticipate unexpected turns over the next generation
- AIDS in a changing world
- Globalization
- Climate change
- Population growth
- A changing global power structure
- Scenarios for the pandemic's future
- Choices made in the next five years will profoundly affect how the pandemic will look in 2031
- To achieve dramatic change, all available tools must be used to their maximum advantage
- Prioritizing HIV prevention is critical to accelerated progress between now and 2031
- To achieve optimal results for 2031, new prevention tools will be needed
- Delivering treatment to those who need it will be vital to minimizing the pandemic's impact
- These projections underscore the need to intensify measures to mitigate the pandemic's impact
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2: Generating knowledge for the future
- AIDS and the power of science
- The limits of science to date
- Generating global public goods
- Prospects for a cure
- New diagnostic technologies
- New prevention tools
- A preventive vaccine
- Building the evidence base for community-level and structural prevention approaches
- Innovative financing and mission-oriented research and development.
- A new approach to programmatic research
- From efficacy to effectiveness
- Generating knowledge to sustain HIV treatment
- Strengthening local knowledge
- Endnotes
- Chapter 3: Using knowledge for a better future
- Designing more effective programs to prevent HIV transmission
- Focusing prevention programs where they are most needed
- Finding synergies in HIV prevention
- Addressing key social forces and structural factors
- Sustaining HIV/AIDS treatment
- Minimizing treatment costs
- Maximizing treatment gains: a new approach to HIV treatment
- Enhancing treatment adherence
- An enabling environment for a sound programmatic response
- Building sustainable national and local capacity
- Transitioning to local control
- Strengthening national systems
- Building AIDS-resilient communities
- Investing in medical education
- Managing programs to enhance their long-term efficiency and effectiveness
- Ensuring quality
- Promoting the efficient use of finite resources
- Placing people living with HIV at the center of AIDS efforts
- Cultivating a new generation of AIDS leaders
- Political leadership for an effective response
- Endnotes
- Chapter 4: Financing AIDS programs over the next generation
- Covering AIDS costs over the next generation
- Diversifying AIDS funding
- Domestic AIDS financing
- The future of international AIDS assistance
- Philanthropy and the future of AIDS
- Innovative financing mechanisms for AIDS
- Performance-based incentives
- Incentives to promote efficiency and effectiveness
- Prioritizing HIV prevention
- Endnotes
- Chapter 5: The way forward: recommendations for long-term success
- 1. Build the knowledge base for long-term action
- 2. Give prevention the priority it deserves
- 3. Ensure universal access to accessible, affordable, and sustainable treatment for people living with HIV.
- 4. Implement a new code of conduct for the AIDS response
- 5. Ensure robust, sustainable financing for a long-term response to AIDS
- 6. Exert leadership to achieve the aids2031 vision
- Aids2031 working papers and additional resources
- Leadership
- Science and technology
- Financing
- Social drivers
- Programmatic response
- Communication
- Hyperendemic areas
- Countries in rapid economic transition
- Modelling
- About the authors
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B-C
- D
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- F
- G
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- I-J
- K-L
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- N-O
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- Q-R
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