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Informationen zum Autor Indrani Gupta is Professor and Head! Health Policy Research Unit! Institute of Economic Growth! Delhi. She is a member of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund for AIDS! Tuberculosis and Malaria and the WHO South-East Asia Advisory Committee on Health Insurance. She has also been a consultant at the Policy Research Unit of the World Bank from 1991 to 1995! and a research analyst at the Bureau of Business and Economic Research! University of Maryland in 1991. She has written a number of reports and research papers on health and health technologies. Klappentext The effectiveness of a new health technology is judged by both its accessibility and also the extent to which it has been adopted in a particular country. With the possibility of an AIDS vaccine in the near future! the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has emphasised the need for countries to prepare well in advance for its smooth access and adoption. Reiterating IAVI's appeal! this book ably captures the course India needs to take for the successful adoption and implementation of the AIDS vaccine in India. The first of its kind! this book examines the adoption of four health technologies in India-Hepatitis B! No Scalpel Vasectomy! Voluntary Counselling and Testing and Antiretroviral Treatment. Using a set of parameters! the authors not only bring to light the various dimensions! strengths and weaknesses of adoption of health technologies in India! but also how and where more attention needs to be paid with regard to the adoption of the AIDS vaccine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Kanchan Chopra PART ONE: ADOPTING THE AIDS VACCINE IN INDIA: PROGNOSIS AND PROSPECTUSPART ONE: Adopting the AIDS Vaccine in India: Progosis and ProspectusIntroduction and Rationale for the StudyIntroduction to Selected Health TechnologiesAdoption of Health Technology in India A Summary of Major FindingsLessons for the Adoption of the Aids VaccineSummary and ConclusionsPART TWO: Analysis: Selected Case Studies of Adoption of Health Technologies In IndiaUniversal Immunisation ProgrammeHepatitis B ImmunisationNo-Scalpel VasectomyVoluntary Counselling and TestingAntiretroviral Therapy in IndiaReferencesIndex ...
