The cost and cost-effectiveness of gender-responsive interventions for HIV: A systematic review

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 17, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Remme, Michelle ^a   Siapka, Mariana ^a   Vassall, Anna ^a   Heise, Lori ^a   Jacobi, Jantine ^b   Ahumada, Claudia ^b   Gay, Jill ^c   Watts, Charlotte ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNAIDS   (Switzerland)

^c Palladium Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Cost effectiveness; Critical enablers; Development synergies; Gender equality; Gender based violence; HIV AIDS; Investment approaches

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMPOWERMENT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE CONDOM; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MARRIED WOMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; POVERTY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSTITUTION; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RAPE; REVIEW; SAFE SEX; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84915746315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.17.1.19228     Document Type: Review

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