All over the world HIV has been stigmatised, making it difficult for people living with HIV to access testing, treatment, care and counselling or even to act on a diagnosis or get advice and treatment, for fear of being judged. Prejudice in society has also often been reflected and reproduced by...

Sexual health is defined in terms of well-being, but is challenged by the social, cultural and economic realities faced by women and men with HIV. A sexual rights approach puts women and men with HIV in charge of their sexual health. Accurate, accessible information to make informed choices and...

In many areas of the globe most HIV infection is transmitted sexually or in association with pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, raising the need for sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS initiatives to be mutually reinforcing. Many people with HIV, who are in good health, will want...

Rationale: Many employers offer workplace health promotion (WHP) programs, such as smoking cessation programs and exercise facilities. There at least two possible economic rationales for employers offering these programs. First, they may offer them in an attempt to improve the health and...

In many European countries screening for colorectal cancer is introduced without a proper evidence of cost-effectiveness. In this paper we present a cost-effectiveness analysis of screening for colorectal cancer. A comprehensive dataset is collected from a Norwegian randomized trial of screening...

Chronic diseases place a substantial economic burden on the health care system. Total costs of illness, disability and death in Canada due to chronic diseases are more than $80 billion annually. Physical inactivity, poor diet and smoking are considered as the main causes of major chronic...

For many health conditions, the best treatment is prevention. To this end, many countries and insurers around the world encourage individuals to participate in preventive care. Citizens in the Netherlands are offered several preventive health care interventions free of charge, including flu...

Aim of the study Hypercholesterinaemia is considered to be one of the major risk factors for arteriosclerosis, and the use of statins as cholesterol lowering drug has extensively increased during the last years. Considering the large number of patients with hypercholesterinaemia, this increased...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the loss of health insurance results in changes in health behavior that reduces the risk or severity of illness. While ex ante moral hazard is nearly always mentioned as a potential consequence of health insurance, it is equally as often noted that ex ante moral...

Background: Women have the highest rate of HIV incidence and are a priority group for HIV prevention measures. The female condom is the only available product specifically for women, however, phase 3 trials are testing the effectiveness of microbicides and the diaphragm in preventing...