Research Catalog

Title

Scaling up treatment for the global AIDS pandemic : challenges and opportunities / Committee on Examining the Probable Consequences of Alternative Patterns of Widespread Antiretroviral Drug Use in Resource-Constrained Settings, Board on Global Health ; James Curran [and others], editors.

Author

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Examining the Probable Consequences of Alternative Patterns of Widespread Antiretroviral Drug Use in Resource-Constrained Settings.

Publication

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Curran, James W.

Description

xviii, 325 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• AIDS (Disease)
• AIDS (Disease) > Developing countries
• Antiretroviral agents > Developing countries
• HIV Infections > drug therapy
• Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
• Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control
• Health Planning > organization & administration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online via the Internet as viewed 12/17/2004.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Opportunities and challenges -- 3. Lessons learned -- 4. Principles of scale-up -- 5. Managing scale-up of antiretroviral therapy -- 6. The path forward -- App. A. Information gathering workshop agenda -- App. B. Primer on human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and antiretroviral therapy -- App. C. Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings : treatment guidelines for a public health approach -- App. D. Human ethical issues arising in ARV scale-up in resource-constrained settings -- App. E. Human resource requirements for scaling-up antiretroviral therapy in low-resource countries.

ISBN

0309092647 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004023710

OCLC

• 56729981
• ocm56729981
• SCSB-5119614

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries