The economics of the global response to HIV/AIDS by Markus Haacker

By Markus Haacker

The worldwide reaction to HIV/AIDS has been an immense element of worldwide overall healthiness and improvement coverage over the past 3 a long time. The e-book illustrates the devastating overall healthiness affects of the epidemic, with lifestyles expectancy in a few nations falling to the bottom degrees saw anyplace, and the impressive luck of the worldwide HIV/AIDS reaction in reversing such severe results. matters in regards to the implications of HIV/AIDS Read more...

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The publication addresses the impression of HIV/AIDS throughout diversified international locations, the worldwide reaction to HIV/AIDS, and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS-related interventions. Read more...

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A). HIV incidence (b). HIV prevalence access to treatment across the population (with considerable external support), and 244,000 people (62 per cent of people living with HIV, and 11 per cent of the total population) were receiving treatment at the end of 2014. Owing to declining HIV incidence in previous years, and the steep increase in treatment, the number of AIDS-related deaths has declined to 5,100 as of 2014 (a decline of almost three-quarters from a peak of 18,800 in 2002). 8 per cent attained in 1997.

In this year, HIV/AIDS was also a dominant contributor to child mortality. 5 per cent). 4 per cent. Nevertheless, HIV/AIDS remains a dominant source of premature deaths among adults. Also noteworthy is the near-disappearance of HIV/AIDS as a cause of child mortality. In Kenya—with a much lower HIV prevalence—the ‘AIDS bump’ in the age profile of mortality has largely disappeared. The principal cause, as in Botswana, is the steep decline in mortality among people living with HIV (dropping from 10 per cent annually to 2 per cent of the population at ages 30–39).

26 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 17/5/2016, SPi Health Impacts of HIV/AIDS The bulk of the discussion of the impact of HIV/AIDS in the three countries considered here was geared towards looking behind some of the aggregate indicators of the impact of HIV/AIDS. The remainder of the chapter reconnects to the earlier discussion of the impact of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy across countries. e. the change against a counterfactual without AIDS) for the three countries and (2) address the role that the expanding access to treatment has played.

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