Factors influencing global antiretroviral procurement prices

CONTENTS

BMC Public Health Open Access

The OptAIDS project: towards global halting of HIV/AIDS

Volume 9 Supplement 1 2009

Editor-in-Chief Melissa Norton Medical Editor Jigisha Patel

Edited by Robert Smith?

In-house Editor Natalie Pafitis

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9?issue=S1 Theme 1: History S1 The OptAIDS project: towards global halting of HIV/AIDS Robert J Smith? and Richard Gordon S2 Mathematical epidemiology is not an oxymoron Fred Brauer S3 The Impact of HIV/AIDS on human development in African Countries Abdesslam Boutayeb

S10 A sex-role-preference model for HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in China Jie Lou, Jianhong Wu, Li Chen,Yuhua Ruan and Yiming Shao Theme 4: In-host models S11 Quantifying the treatment efficacy of reverse transcriptase inhibitors: new analyses of clinical data based on within-host modelling Romulus Breban, Sonia Napravnik, James Kahn and Sally Blower

Theme 2: Resource allocation S4 The past, present and future of HIV, AIDS and resource allocation Steven Forsythe, John Stover and Lori Bollinger S5 HIV prevention cost-effectiveness: A systematic review Omar Galárraga, M Arantxa Colchero, Richard G Wamai and Stefano M Bertozzi S6 Factors influencing global antiretroviral procurement prices Veronika J Wirtz, Steven Forsythe, Atanacio Valencia-Mendoza and Sergio Bautista-Arredondo S7 Addressing the migration of health professionals: the role of working conditions and educational placements Julia Witt S8 Recommendations for increasing the use of HIV/AIDS resource-allocation models Arielle Lasry, Anke Richter and Frithjof Lutscher Theme 3: Demographics S9 Population profiling in China by gender and age: implication for HIV incidences Yuanyi Pan, Jianhong Wu and Jianhong Wu

S12 Reconciling conflicting clinical studies of antioxidant supplementation as HIV therapy: a mathematical approach Rolina D van Gaalen and Lindi M Wahl Theme 5: Computation S13 Halting HIV/AIDS with avatars and havatars: a virtual world approach to modelling epidemics Richard Gordon, Natalie K Björklund, Robert J Smith? and Eluemuno R Blyden S14 Epidemic modeling with discrete-space scheduled walkers: extensions and research opportunities Maciej Borkowski, Blake W Podaima and Robert D McLeod Theme 6: Spending our way out of the AIDS epidemic S15 Can we spend our way out of the AIDS epidemic? A world halting AIDS model Robert J Smith?, Jing Li, Richard Gordon and Jane M Heffernan

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The OptAIDS Project: towards global halting of HIV/AIDS Information about the OptAIDS workshop The OptAIDS Workshop (http://www.mitacs.ca/conferences/OptAIDS/) brought together mathematicians, epidemiologists and health economists to create the WHAM model of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The one-day meeting was held simultaneously in Toronto on July 29, 2008 at the University of Toronto and in Second Life®. Second Life® is a virtual world, free to join, that allows groups of people to meet and talk with one another as if they were together in the same room. Each person in Second Life® was represented by an avatar. A follow-up discussion meeting was held as a mini-symposium at the Society for Mathematical Biology annual meeting on July 30 2008. The workshop was part of the OptAIDS project, which aims to consider HIV/AIDS as a global issue and develop mathematical models for eradication. This supplement in BMC Public Health is another branch of the project.

Information about the workshop (including a guide to Second Life®) can be found at http://www.mitacs.ca/conferences/OptAIDS/ Talks remain in Second Life® and can be viewed anytime (after signing up) at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Silver Bog/11/19/23 Workshop Presentations Nico Nagelkerke Impact and Costs of Male Circumcision Maciej Borkowski Epidemic Modeling with Discrete Space Scheduled Walkers Krzysztof Szajowski Application of change point model Richard Gordon Halting HIV/AIDS with avatars and havatars Eluemuno Blyden The relative impact achievable by investement in Traditional Medicine Jesper Pedersen Prediction of the ultimate maximum of Brownian motion by optimal stopping Roze Kalaj The Prevention Strategy for HIV in Albania- Lessons for Countries with Nascent HIV/AIDS epidemics Stephen Kiirya The prevention strategy for HIV in Uganda: lessons for countries with nascent HIV/AIDS epidemics Philip O'Neill Using Risk Analysis to Model an Epidemic Dean Yergens Healthcare Facilities and Staffing in Malawi/Zambia Deborah Cohen Cost-Effective Allocation Of Government Funds To Prevent HIV Infection Arielle Lasry Modeling HIV Resource Allocation Yuanyi Pan Population Profile of STD Transmission in China

Robert Smith? A World-Halting AIDS model Abdulrahaman Oladimeji Sholotan Health Worker Motivation in Africa Vincent Olughor Best Options in Treating Apicomplexa-Parasites Induced OIs of HIV Dominik Wodarz In Vivo Dynamics of HIV Therapy and Vaccination Beni Sahai HIV Vaccine: Current Barriers and Future Opportunities