The insurance industry--a leader in the fight against AIDS.

Industry in the fight against COVID-19 crisis

حقوق بشر، ایدز و سلامت عمومی

Aids has turned into a significant development crisis and the UN Secretary General has allocated a great portion of its commitments to Aids to the extent that both in the special UN assembly and in the reports to the World Leaders Summit has dealt with them .The Aids is a universal epidemic issue and has been scattered in all parts of the world it has involved all continents in a way that natio...

[Progress in the fight against malaria].

• In 2007, the U.S. provided $257 million in funding for bilateral programs to fight malaria. Twenty‐five million people, most of these children, in 15 countries have been reached through these investments. • The U.S. has disbursed more than $2.5 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, a key partner in the fight against malaria, since its inception. The Global Fund ...

Governance of HIV/AIDS: Implications for Health Sector Response

This paper reviews the essence of effective governance and importance of a multi-sectoral approach in generating health systems response to HIV/AIDS. This comprehensive approach highlights the importance of integrating reproductive sexual health programs and HIV prevention services, including peer education, life skills, and Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), for Prevention of Mother–to-Ch...

Designing the financial tools to promote universal access to AIDS care.

We argue that reluctance to invest in drug treatments to fight the AIDS epidemics in developing countries is largely motivated by severe losses occurring from the future albeit uncertain appearance of a curative vaccine. We design a set of securities generating full insurance coverage against such losses, while achieving full risk-sharing with vaccine development agencies. In a General Equilibr...