Table of Contents

The Dynamics of an AIDS TransitionA" 1. Is there a population explosion of AIDS patients? 2. Recognition of existing incentives linking treatment and prevention 3. Overview of the book and its policy recommendations Sustaining AIDS Mortality Reductions 4. AIDS treatment successes 5. Neglected policies to sustain mortality reductions 6. AIDS treatment as the first international entitlement and its future fiscal burden 7. The likelihood and consequences of insufficient funding to treat all who need it Assuring HIV Prevention 8. HIV prevention successes 9. Neglected HIV prevention policies 10. Spillover effects of AIDS treatment 11. A cash-on-delivery approach to HIV prevention Reinforcing the Incentives to Achieve the HIV transition 12. Shifting the entitlement burden 13. Leveraging treatment demand for HIV prevention 14. The AIDS transition initiative

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"Mead Over proposes a canny model for marshaling and coordinating donor contributions to AIDS prevention and treatment in developing countries. Achieving an AIDS Transition includes prudent and detailed plans that promise to bring us all closer to a transition long overdue." --Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health "Living with AIDS is clearly better than dying with AIDS. But the best outcome is to return to an AIDS-free world. Mead Over's book provides the essential foundation for understanding the transition." --Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion "There is an urgent need to take a long-term view on AIDS. Achieving an AIDS Transition is thought-provoking and provides an important contribution to this vital debate." --Peter Piot, former executive director of UNAIDS

About the Author

Mead Over, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, is one of the world's leading experts on the economics and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

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"Mead Over proposes a canny model for marshaling and coordinating donor contributions to AIDS prevention and treatment in developing countries. Achieving an AIDS Transition includes prudent and detailed plans that promise to bring us all closer to a transition long overdue." —Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health|"Living with AIDS is clearly better than dying with AIDS. But the best outcome is to return to an AIDS-free world. Mead Over's book provides the essential foundation for understanding the transition." —Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion|"There is an urgent need to take a long-term view on AIDS. Achieving an AIDS Transition is thought-provoking and provides an important contribution to this vital debate." —Peter Piot, former executive director of UNAIDS