Overview of
"Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic"
"Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global
Epidemic" is a World
Bank report published in November 1997 by the Oxford University
Press which concludes that with approximately 90 percent of all HIV infections occurring
in developing countries, more intensive government prevention efforts,
especially among people who have many sex partners or inject drugs, could save
millions of lives and reduce the severe economic and social costs of the
epidemic. [See World Bank press release in English
or French.] For information on how to purchase the report see World
Bank Publications (English) or PAHO
Publications (Español). This area of the AIDS Economics web site provides materials from this book as well as background materials and data
sets used in its preparation. You may also view the FULL
TEXT.
Excerpt from the Chinese Version of Confronting AIDS!
- http://www.jkb.com.cn/aids/aids.htm
New Statistical Appendix Available: Update on Infection Rates, Stage of the Epidemic, and Condom Statistics, by Economy, December 1998.
As of the end of 1998, UNAIDS estimated that 33.4 million people worldwide were infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS and that 13.9 million people had died of AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic (figure 1). This appendix provides an update of selected statistics by economy as of December 1998. The definitions of most of these terms were provided in the notes to statistical appendix tables 1–3, which appeared in the book Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic.
Download PDF version of appendix (14 pages, 15k).
Corrections: As a service to readers of the printed report, corrections to errors that appeared in the first printing (dated October, 1997) are provided here.
This link takes you to the collection of 17 studies commissioned as
background for the original Confronting AIDS World Bank report.
Most of the studies were launched by the World Bank and the European
Commission in early 1996. The first drafts were presented for
discussion at an authors’ workshop on ‘AIDS and Development: The
Role of Government’, held in Limelette, Belgium, in June 1996, under
the joint chairmanship of Lyn Squire of the Development Research Group
of the World Bank and Lieve Fransen of the European Commission’s
Directorate-General for Development. The World Bank and the European
Commission jointly sponsored the Limelette workshop and the commissioned
papers.
