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Scenarioproject AIDS
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What proportions will the HIV/AIDS epidemic assume and how many new HIV infections can be averted by HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns? How much care and support will people with HIV and AIDS need and what successes can be expected within the care sector? What will be the social consequences of AIDS and how can ostracism and the social isolation of people with HIV and AIDS be avoided?
These and other related questions form the subject of this book, which examines the sociocultural and economic impact of AIDS in the Netherlands up to the year 2000. The book presents a study carried out by the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health (NcGv) and the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM), under the direction of the STG Scenario Committee on AIDS.
The researchers look back at the epidemiological, sociocultural and economic impact of AIDS in the Netherlands during the first decade of the epidemic and, on the basis of this, use scenario analysis to project the impact of AIDS up to the year 2000.
The future projections relate both to the impact of AIDS and the maximization of efforts to combat the disease. In addition to a scenario exploring the impact of AIDS if developments continue unchanged, alternative scenarios are also put forward. These focus on the impact of significant changes in such diverse fields as sexual behaviour, injecting drug use, the effectiveness and organization of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, and the demand for delivery of care.
The book concludes that the impact of AIDS will only become fully apparent in the second decade of the epidemic. The authors consider the implications of this conclusion for HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, research, care and the efforts to counter the socially undesirable impacts of AIDS.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: AIDS up to the Year 2000
Book Subtitle: Epidemiological, Sociocultural and Economic Scenario Analysis, Scenario Report Commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Authors: F. M. L. G. Boom, J. C. Jager, D. P. Reinking, M. J. Postma, C. E. S. Albers
Series Title: Future Health Scenarios
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2848-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: STG, Rijswijk 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1895-8Published: 30 June 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2848-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 314
Topics: Public Health, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology