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Growth Inhibition of Human Colon Cancer Cells By Plant Compounds
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Epidemiological and animal studies have demonstrated that plant-derived constituents play an important role in the prevention of disease through ...
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Maximum impact of HIV prevention measures targeted at injecting drug users. -
EJC van Ameijden, RA Coutinho - AIDS, 1998 - aidsonline.com
... of -4.2 ? year and +0.25 ? year 2 is -4.2% + 2 ? 0.25 ? year), and ... Amsterdam have
already included a wide variety of extensive HIV prevention measures for ...

Cost-effectiveness of HIV-prevention skills training for men who have sex with men. -
SD Pinkerton, DR Holtgrave, RO Valdiserri - AIDS, 1997 - aidsonline.com
... A base-case value of 0.25 has been assumed for this parameter; alternative ... per
discounted QALY saved that is not specific to HIV prevention, it facilitates ...

… Men Who Have Sex With Men: Opportunities for Advancing HIV Prevention in the Third Decade of HIV/ … -
DA MacKellar, LA Valleroy, GM Secura, S Behel, T … - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2005 - jaids.org
... age group, race, and all variables that were moderately associated (P < 0.25) in
our ... To advance HIV prevention in the third decade of HIV/AIDS, national, state ...

… communications to change actions: an analysis of behavioral and cognitive impact in HIV prevention -
D Albarracin, PS McNatt, C Findley-Klein, R Ho, A … - Health Psychology, 2003 - content.apa.org
... and Cognitive Impact in HIV Prevention Dolores Albarracin, Penny S. McNatt, and
Cynthia TF Klein University of Florida ... k 82 HIV prevention methods % 76 NA ...

[CITATION] Methadone Maintenance and HIV Prevention: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -
GS Zaric, ML Brandeau, PG Barnett - Management Science, 2000 - INFORMS
... ZARIC, BRANDEAU, AND BARNETT Methadone Maintenance and HIV Prevention 1014 ... ZARIC,
BRANDEAU, AND BARNETT Methadone Maintenance and HIV Prevention ...

… intervention trial in Africa: effect of a birth canal cleansing intervention to prevent HIV … -
RJ Biggar, PG Miotti, TE Taha, L Mtimavalye, R … - Lancet, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... PIP: In light of evidence that birth canal exposure to HIV may be a major ... efficacy
of cleansing the birth canal with a cotton pad soaked in 0.25% chlorhexidine ...

Prevention of vertical HIV transmission: additive protective effect of elective Cesarean section and … -
C Kind, C Rudin, CA Siegrist, CA Wyler, K … - AIDS, 1998 - aidsonline.com
... 16-23) for other delivery modes (OR, 0.25; 95% CI ... valuable alternative or adjunct
in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, especially for ...

… Educational and Needle Exchange Programs: A Meta-analysis of HIV Prevention Strategies for Injecting … -
JE Cross, CM Saunders, D Bartelli - Quality and Quantity, 1998 - Springer
... the mean follow-up time was 6.5 months, ranging from 0.25?18 months ... Evaluation of
syringe-exchange for HIV prevention among injecting drug users in rural and ...

… engage in high-risk sexual behaviour: psychological characteristics and implications for prevention -
SC Kalichman, J Greenberg, GG Abel - AIDS Care, 1997 - informaworld.com
... 5 0.25, p . 0.1. ... sexual compulsivity scales among support group and prevention programme
participants ... This study identi? ed a minority of HIV-seropositive men ...

Lack of Long-term Effects of In Utero Exposure to Zidovudine Among Uninfected Children Born to HIV- … -
M Culnane, MG Fowler, SS Lee, G McSherry, M Brady, … - JAMA, 1999 - Am Med Assoc
... T lymphocyte percentage over 24 months was ?1.8% (0.25 SDU), and ... and other developed
countries for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. ...

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Scaling Up HIV Prevention Programs Is Cost Effective
Scaling up HIV prevention programs can increase efficiency and thus prevent more HIV infections, according to a study published in the online open access journal BMC Health Services Research. Each doubling of a program's scale can reduce costs by around a third, and some large programs are ten times more efficient than smaller ones - meaning that many more infections are averted for the same amount of resources.

"Proven prevention methods need to be scaled up rapidly," says Elliot Marseille, the project director and lead author of the report. "Therefore, the fact that costs tend to go down as scale goes up is good news. This could save millions of lives, as well as keeping in check the number of new patients requiring expensive anti-retroviral therapies."
Larger prevention programs use money more efficiently than smaller ones, analysis of the "Prevent AIDS: Network for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" (PANCEA) project suggests. The study, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, seeks to improve HIV prevention funding allocation in low and middle-income countries.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) collaborated with local teams to collect recent cost and output data from 206 HIV prevention programs in India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Uganda. Six types of interventions were assessed including, voluntary counseling and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. And the team assessed relationship between scale (number of HIV prevention services provided) and unit cost (cost per unit of service).

The 'scale up - cost down' effect was seen across many countries and prevention approaches, with some large programs up to 100 times more cost effective than their smaller counterparts. But there is a threshold. When projects expand beyond a certain point, costs can start to rise - an effect noted in 2 types of HIV prevention interventions in India.

As more PANCEA-type data becomes available, researchers will be better able to predict these changes. "The global HIV prevention effort is rapidly increasing, with literally billions of dollars of spending anticipated in coming years." says James G. Kahn, the project's principal investigator. "We hope that research of this type will help programs better translate spending into HIV infections averted."

"HIV prevention costs and program scale: data from the PANCEA project in five low and middle-income countries"
Elliot Marseille, Lalit Dandona, Nell Marshall, Paul Gaist, Sergio Bautista, Brandi Rollins, Stefano Bertozzi, Jerry Coovadia, Joseph Saba, Dmitry Lioznov, Jo-Ann Du Plessis, Evgeny Krupitsky, Nicci Stanley, Mead Over, Alena Peryshkina, S.G. Prem Kumar, Sowedi Muyingo, Christian Pitter, Mattias Lundberg and James G. Kahn
BMC Health Services Research (in press)
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