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Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
The AIDS epidemic is a serious, growing public health problem worldwide, but resources for treating HIV-infected patients and for combating the spread of the virus are limited. Governments, public-health agencies, and health-care providers must determine how best to allocate scarce resources for HIV treatment and prevention among different programs and populations. OR-based models have influenced—and can influence—AIDS policy decisions. Mathematical modeling has had an effect on AIDS policy in a number of areas, including estimating HIV prevalence and incidence in the United States, understanding the pathophysiology of HIV, evaluating costs and benefits of HIV-screening programs, evaluating the effects of needle-exchange programs, and determining policies for HIV/AIDS care in California. Further work is needed to model a range of programs using comparable methods, to model overall epidemic control strategy, and to improve the usefulness of OR-based models for policy making.
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Consultant on Health Care Systems and Government Affairs, 715 Laurel Avenue, #201, San Mateo, California 94401
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