| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 244 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Directions in development. Human development |
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Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
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World Bank e-Library.
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| Contents |
Dynamics of the HIV epidemic in South Asia / David Wilson and Mariam Claeson -- Responding to HIV in Afghanistan / Jed Friedman and Edit V. Velenyi -- Development impact of HIV and AIDS in South Asia / Markus Haacker -- Economic cost of HIV and AIDS in India / Sanghamitra Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, and Tridip Ray -- The fiscal burden of AIDS treatment on South Asian health care systems / Mead Over -- Recurrent costs of India's free ART program / Indrani Gupta, Mayur Trivedi, and Subodh Kandamuthan |
| Summary |
This book offers an original perspective on AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national HIV prevalence rates of up to 0.5 percent. The analysis challenges the common perception of HIV and AIDS which has been shaped to a large extent by analysis of HIV and AIDS in other regions with much higher prevalence rates. Three risks to development are associated with HIV and AIDS in South Asia: the risk of escalation of concentrated epidemics, the economic welfare costs, and the fiscal costs of scaling up treatment.--Publisher description |
| Notes |
Errata slip inserted |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Economic aspects -- South Asia
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HIV infections.
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Demography.
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HIV Infections
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HIV Infections -- epidemiology
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Demography
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Financing, Government -- statistics & numerical data
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HIV Infections -- economics
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Developing Countries
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demography.
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MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
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HIV infections
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Demography
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AIDS (Disease) -- Economic aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Asia |
| Subject |
South Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics
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Statistics.
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Statistiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haacker, Markus.
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Claeson, Mariam.
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World Bank.
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| LC no. |
2008049854 |
| ISBN |
9780821378007 |
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0821378007 |
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9780821378267 |
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0821378260 |
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1282012592 |
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9781282012592 |
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9786612012594 |
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6612012595 |
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