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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. AIDS Cost and Services Utilization Survey (ACSUS), 56 AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), 169 AIDS Education Training Centers, established under the Ryan White CARE Act of 1990, 170 AIDS incidence versus allocation of HIV prevention funds, 32 CDC-allocation of HIV prevention funds versus, 32 estimates of, 141 by state, 32 AIDS pandemic global, 140 projecting, 15 AIDS Research Program Evaluation Working Group, 76-77 AIDS service organizations (ASOs), 68 improving organizational capacity of, 72-73 Alaskan Natives, HIV prevention programs for, 171 Alcohol use, 107n Alliance for Microbicide Development, 85-86, 90 Alliances, for health departments, 193 Allocating resources for HIV prevention, 5-6, 26-49. See also HIV prevention investments versus AIDS incidence by state, 32 assessing the cost-effectiveness of, 32-35 calculations for, 175-177 at the community level, 39 current allocation of federal, 28-32 at the national level, 39-46 optimizing, 44-46 a strategic vision for, 37 using epidemic impact as a measure of success, 35-37 Alternative barrier methods, 83-86 the female condom, 83-84 microbicides, 84-86 “America Responds to AIDS” (ARTA), 158 American Academy of Pediatrics, 118 American Foundation for AIDS Research, 90 American Indians, HIV prevention programs for, 171 American Journal of Public Health, 173 Anal intercourse, male condom use during, 36 Annual infections prevented cost-effectiveness versus proportional allocation, 43 impact of investing in better, more expensive programs, 45 percentage improvement, 44 Antimicrobial therapies, advances in, 7 Antiretroviral therapies, 86-87 HIV-infected persons receiving, 51 optimizing patient adherence to, 53-54 Public Health Service Task Force recommendations for use of, 34 ARTA. See “America Responds to AIDS” ASOs. See AIDS service organizations Assessing the cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions, in allocating resources, 32-35 At-risk populations, 2, 12, 99-100 B “Back calculations,” 148 Balanced Budget Act of 1997, 119 Barrier methods, alternative, 83-86 Barrier products, 171 Barriers to HIV care, 98-128 access to drug abuse treatment, 106-116 access to sterile drug injection equipment, 114-116 comprehensive sex education and condom availability in schools, 116-120 HIV prevention in correctional settings, 120-128 lack of leadership, 104-105 misperceptions, 103-104 poverty, racism, and gender inequality, 98-100 requests for public comment on, 189-190 the sexual “code of silence,” 100-101 stigma of HIV/AIDS, 101-103
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