The Determinants of the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in Europe: held in conjunction with the 12th World AIDS Conference (UNAIDS, 1998, 44 p.): (introduction...)

The Determinants of the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in Europe: held in conjunction with the 12th World AIDS Conference (UNAIDS, 1998, 44 p.)

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		Previous reports produced by MAP
		Acknowledgments
		1. Introduction
		2. Overall socioeconomic and health situation
		3. Increased vulnerability to HIV/STI
		4. Testing strategies and epidemiological surveillance
		5. The unfolding of the epidemic
		6. Determinants of the epidemic among drug users
		7. HIV among prisoners
		8. Projections
		9. Determinants of STI/HIV spread among female sex workers
		10. Sexually transmitted infections
		11. Determinants of the epidemic among men who have sex with men
		12. Conclusion and recommendations
		List of Participants for 1999
		Back cover

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Geneva, Switzerland
June 28 - July 3, 1998

Hosted by the Marcel Meux Foundation
Veyrier du Lac, France

Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network

MAP is a collegial network of internationally recognized technical experts seeking to assess the status and trends of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Created in 1996, MAP is jointly sponsored by its founding institutions:

	Family Health International, funded by the United States Agency for International Development

	The Frans-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights of the Harvard School of Public Health

	The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

MAP’s more than 120 members in 40 countries are epidemiologists, modelers, economists, and social, behavioral, public health and international development specialists, recruited through a nomination process and currently guided by an Interim Global Steering Committee. MAP hopes to make its greatest impact by providing objective, timely and high-quality analyses of the most current information on the pandemic, for the improvement of prevention, care and social interventions worldwide.

MAP workshops and membership meetings are held in conjunction with regional and international HIV/AIDS conferences. This enables MAP to function on a small budget and to distribute results from its analyses promptly to conference participants.

AIDS service organizations and regional networks of people living with HIV/AIDS are invited to participate in MAP workshops. MAP works towards building consensus in an atmosphere of collegiality, cultural sensitivity, and mutual respect for conflicting points of view. It functions on the basis of volunteerism and personal and institutional contributions, with limited financial support from international organizations, including UNAIDS, and provides an independent perspective on issues raised by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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Peter Lamptey
Daniel Tarantola

MAP Interim Steering Committee Members:
Chris Archibald
Stephen Blount
Tim Brown
Jean-Baptiste Brunet
Jim Chin
Antonio Gerbase
John Kaldor
Bernhard Schwartler
Karen Stanecki DeLay
John Ward
Fernando Zacarias
Debrework Zewdie

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