Achieving the millennium development goals for health - Evaluation of current strategies and future priorities for improving health in developing countries

Evans, David B., Lim, Stephen S., Adam, Taghreed and Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres (2005) Achieving the millennium development goals for health - Evaluation of current strategies and future priorities for improving health in developing countries. British Medical Journal, 331 7530: 1457-1461.

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Author Evans, David B.
Lim, Stephen S.
Adam, Taghreed
Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres
Title Achieving the millennium development goals for health - Evaluation of current strategies and future priorities for improving health in developing countries
Journal name British Medical Journal  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank A*)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2005-12-17
Sub-type Editorial
DOI 10.1136/bmj.38658.675243.94
Volume number 331
Issue number 7530
ISSN 0007-1447
Start page 1457
End page 1461
Total pages 5
Place of publication London, England
Publisher B M J Publishing Group
Language eng
Subject 320000 Medical and Health Sciences
321100 Nursing
321200 Public Health and Health Services
329900 Other Medical and Health Sciences
321217 Health Counselling
321215 Health Care Administration
321299 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Formatted abstract Objective:  To assess the costs and health effects of a range of interventions for preventing the spread of HIV and for treating people with HIV/AIDS in the context of the millennium development goal for combating HIV/AIDS.

Design:  Cost effectiveness analysis based on an epidemiological model. Setting Analyses undertaken for two regions classified using the WHO epidemiological grouping—Afr-E, countries in sub-Saharan Africa with very high adult and high child mortality, and Sear-D, countries in South East Asia with high adult and high child mortality. Data sources Biological and behavioural parameters from clinical and observational studies and population based surveys. Intervention effects and resource inputs based on published reports, expert opinion, and the WHO-CHOICE database. Main outcome measures Costs per disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted in 2000 international dollars ($Int).

Results:  In both regions interventions focused on mass media, education and treatment of sexually transmitted infections for female sex workers, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections in the general population cost < $Int150 per DALY averted. Voluntary counselling and testing costs < $Int350 per DALY averted in both regions, while prevention of mother to child transmission costs < $Int50 per DALY averted in Afr-E but around $Int850 per DALY in Sear-D. School based education strategies and various antiretroviral treatment strategies cost between $Int500 and $Int5000 per DALY averted.

Conclusions:  Reducing HIV transmission could be done most efficiently through mass media campaigns, interventions for sex workers and treatment of sexually transmitted infections where resources are most scarce. However, prevention of mother to child transmission, voluntary counselling and testing, and school based education would yield further health gains at higher budget levels and would be regarded as cost effective or highly cost effective based on standard international benchmarks. Antiretroviral therapy is at least as cost effective in improving population health as some of these interventions. 
Keyword Medicine, General & Internal
Q-Index Code CX
Q-Index Status Provisional Code
Institutional Status Unknown

Document type: Journal Article
Sub-type: Editorial
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