Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic

by World Bank Group

This updated edition of 'Confronting AIDS' includes a vital, new statistical appendix that assembles information about the levels and determinants of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and selected policy variables for low- and middle-income countries. It draws on three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV; public health insights into disease control; and especially public economics, which focuses on assessing tradeoffs in the allocation of scarce public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195215915
• ISBN13: 9780195215915
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.3"