effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of priority health interventions. The volume presents data on the surgical burden of … disease, disability, congenital anomalies, and trauma, along with health impact and economic analyses of procedures, platforms ….5 million deaths a year and rank among the most cost effective of all health interventions. Existing health care delivery …

scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) and associated health services, such as basic and palliative care, disease prevention …

Moldova, where public health conditions are also rapidly deteriorating. Second, because of their geographical location, those …

for individuals-and for the region's health systems, economies, and social fabric. HIV/AIDS is therefore a multisectoral …

threat to health and economic development in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Despite the dangers, country responses …

investment in education and training is thus lost. These deaths also have significant family consequences, since most people in …

HIV/AIDS on health systems, social structures, and individuals. Moreover, the approach to HIV/AIDS in SEE is complicated …

, economic development, and health systems reform. In Russia, economic analysis has described the significant future impact on … health and health systems if the concentrated epidemic in that country goes unchecked (Ruhl et al. 2002). The opportunity for … infections will overwhelm under funded health care systems such as those in Central Asia. Low prevalence, or nascent epidemics of …