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1. Feasibility trial of a film-based educational intervention for increasing boys’ and girls’ intentions to avoid teenage pregnancy: Study protocol

   The World Health Organisation, amongst others, recognises that adolescent men have a vital yet neglected role in reducing teenage pregnancies and that there is a pressing need for educational interventions designed especially for them. This study seeks to fill this gap by determining the feasibility of conducting an effectiveness trial of the If I Were Jack intervention in post-primary schools. This 4-week intervention aims to increase teenagers’ intentions to avoid unintended pregnancy and addresses gender inequalities in sex education by explicitly focusing on young men. …

2. Economics of AIDS and access to HIV/AIDS care in developing countries. Issues and challenges

   This book is a contribution to the debate on expanding access to HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries. It presents an important and innovative aspect of the work of the ANRS (Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida), one of the few agencies to have initiated research in this field.

3. Economic impact of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on education supply in high prevalence regions

   Background: We set out to estimate, for the three geographical regions with the highest HIV prevalence, (sub-Saharan Africa [SSA], the Caribbean and the Greater Mekong sub-region of East Asia), the human resource and economic impact of HIV on the supply of education from 2008 to 2015, the target date for the achievement of Education For All (EFA), contrasting the continuation of access to care, support and Antiretroviral therapy (ART) to the scenario of universal access. …

4. Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. Gateways to integration: a case study from Haiti

   The process of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS needs to work in both directions: this means that traditional sexual and reproductive health services need to integrate HIV/AIDS interventions, and also that programmes set up to address the AIDS epidemic need to integrate more general services for sexual and reproductive health. While there is broad consensus that strengthening linkages should be beneficial for clients, only limited evidence is published regarding real benefits, feasibility, costs and implications for health systems. …

5. Análisis de los costos de atención del VIH/SIDA en México

   El presente estudio documenta la experiencia mexicana en materia de tratamiento del VIH/SIDA en tres diferentes subsistemas de salud - la Secretaría de Salud (SSA), los Institutos Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS/ISSSTE), y los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (INS). Asimismo, proporciona a los donantes y a los encargados de políticas la información necesaria para planificar y proyectar un tratamiento completo del VIH/SIDA. …