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Brochure Towards a better Control of the Epidemic (AIDS 3 Project)

References

The following references represents a sample of useful documents and are not comprehensive. A web address is given whenever available : should these addresses change, a good search engine (ex: Google) should solve the difficulty.

Some web sites are worth regular visits:

• International AIDS Economic Network : http://www.iaen.org/ .
  A site dealing with economic aspects of AIDS prevention and treatment.

• World Health Organization : www.who.int
  For in formations on major international health programmes (ex: TB, malaria)

• UNAIDS: www.unaids.org 
  For updated statisticcal data.

• UNICEF: www.unicef.org
  On issues related to children and their health, including AIDS

• Data on all countries : http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
   

Public Health

• The Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion.
  www.forumscv.qc.ca/documents/Ottawa.pdf
  Consensus paper of a WHO meeting held in Ottawa in 1996, exploring the bases of modern public health

AIDS

• Children on the brink 2002.
  www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2000/childrenreport.pdf

• Can AIDS be stopped?
  http://www.ccisd.org/fra/f_documents/Arret_sida.pdf
  The New York Review of Books, March 14, 2002:By Helen Epstein, Lincoln Chen

• Situation of AIDS epidemic in 2002.
  http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/epidemiology.asp
• Prostitution and AIDS in West Africa.
  Kane, Fadel : a m ission report to CCISD ccisd@ccisd.org
• Can We Reverse the HIV/AIDS Pandemic with an Expanded Response?
  John Stover, Neff Walker, Geoff P Garnett, Joshua A Salomon, Karen A Stanecki, Peter D Ghys, Nicholas C Grassly, Roy M Anderson, Bernhard Schwartlander
  The Lancet, Vol 360, July 6, 2002, pages 73-77.
• 60 millions Africans affected by AIDS
  Piot, Peter
• Breaking the silence: realistic priorities to combat AIDS in less developped countries
  Martha Ainsworth, Waranya Teokul
  The Lancet 356, Nov 2000.
• AIDS in Africa
  R.W. Copson, CRS, Oct 2003
  Good statistics. The US policy.
• AIDS and micronutriments
  Sukhum J, J Pepin, R Suttent, S Filteau, B Mahakkanukrauh, W Hanshaoworakul, P Chaisilwattana, P Suthipinittharm, P Shetty and S Jaffar.
  A randomized trial of the impact of multiple micronutrient supplementation on mortality among HIV-infected individuals living in Bangkok. AIDS 2003, 17:2461–2469

AIDS: economical issues

• Access to HIV Prevention: Closing the Gap:
  www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/downloads/globalhealth/aids/PWGFundingReport.pdf
• Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa: a systematic review of the evidence  
  Andrew Creese, Katherine Floyd, Anita Alban, Lorna Guinness .
  The Lancet 2002; 359: 1635-42

AIDS: antiretroviral therapies 

• Twenty-four month efficacy of a maternal short-course zidovudine regimen to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in West Africa
  AIDS 2002 March 8;16(4):631-641. 
• A review of the Nevirapine debate
  http://news.hst.org.za/view.php3?id=20030732
• Improving access to ART in resource-poor countries
  http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/prev_care/en/ScalingUP_FR.pdf
• HIV Prevention before HAART in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Elliot Marseille, Paul B Hofmann, James G Kahn
  The Lancet, Vol 359, May 25, 2002, pages 1851-56
• HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
  Peter Piot, Debrework Zewdie and Tomris Turmen
  The Lancet, Vol 360, July 6, 2002, page 86.
• Assessing site readiness for introducing ART
  http://www.deliver.jsi.com/2002/archives/hivaids/SofR_tool/index.cfm
• Primary Drug-resistant HIV in 10% of European Patients
  Stephen Pincock
  2nd International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment,  July 13-16, 2003, Paris, France
  http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/2003icr/2ndias/documents/071803a.html

Malaria: cost-effectiveness

• Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of environmental management for malaria control.
  Utzinger J, Tozan Y, Singer BH.
  Trop Med Int Health 2001 Sep;6(9):677-87
   

Tuberculosis 

• www.who.int/health_topics/tuberculosis/fr/

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