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Blog Post
November 25, 2014
On World AIDS Day in 2003, WHO and UNAIDS launched a campaign called the “3 by 5 initiative,” with the objective to “treat three million people with HIV by 2005.” At that time, AIDS treatment was still prohibitively expensive for poor countries, where only a few thousand peop...
Jun
8
2010
12:00—2:00 PM
June 01, 2010
How can we stem the tide of the HIV epidemic? The impressive scale up of international spending on HIV treatment has led to significant declines in morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS. However, as these impressive gains have gone unmatched by corresponding decreases in the incidence of new cases...
Multimedia
May 25, 2010
Even as the cost of treating HIV/AIDS has fallen dramatically, the number of people newly infected has remained high. What can be done to reverse this trend and finally defeat this disease? This week on the Wonkcast, I’m joined by Mead Over, a senior fellow here at the Center for Global Development ...
May
25
2010
10:30—12:00 PM
May 17, 2010
The "Mukta" (meaning "Freedom") Project, as it is locally known, is an initiative of Pathfinder International, a partner of the Gates Foundation/Avahan Project in India. Pathfinder International works in 10 districts of Maharashtra state in India to reduce the prevalence of STIs and HIV/AIDS among ...
January 15, 2010
Last week’s presidential candidate forum on national service highlighted the theme of volunteerism common to the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama. Both promised to make service a priority and emphasized the value of expanding domestic and international service opportunities. CGD senior fell...
DATA SETS
June 05, 2009
This dataset compiles selected global variables on AIDS and its treatment and prevention. The data are in the format developed by the Stata statistical software corporation and are intended for use with Over and McCarthy's AIDSCost package for the purpose of projecting the future budgetary cost of s...
PUBLICATION
June 04, 2009
CGD senior fellow Mead Over and Owen McCarthy offer a users' manual and Stata software to help students and instructors of public health, development economics, or health economics to project the future budgetary cost of AIDS treatment in poor countries and to explore the many factors affecting the ...
Apr
20
2009
3:00—4:30 PM
April 09, 2009
Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Alan Whiteside, where he will examine the origins of AIDS exceptionalism and how it has helped and hindered our response to the epidemic. Whiteside will ask if exceptionalism is still a useful concept in light of our current knowledge about the epidemic, the ...
WORKING PAPERS
February 13, 2009
Senior fellow Mead Over estimates the effect of AIDS on poverty in South Asia and analyzes public policy options to help the region’s predominantly private health care systems meet the challenge of treating AIDS. He finds that South Asian governments should play a larger role in AIDS treatment th...