Value in Health
December 2015 Volume 18, Issue 8, p941-1162
http://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/current

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Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Hypothetical Strategies to Enhance Retention in Care within HIV Treatment Programs in East Africa
Jason Kessler, Kimberly Nucifora, Lingfeng Li, Lauren Uhler, Scott Braithwaite
p946–955
Published online: November 16 2015
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Attrition from care among HIV infected patients can lead to poor clinical outcomes. Our objective was to evaluate hypothetical interventions seeking to improve retention-in-care (RIC) for HIV-infected patients in East Africa, asking whether they could offer favorable value compared to earlier ART initiation.

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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Universal Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Using a Dynamic Bayesian Methodology: The BEST II Study
Katrin Haeussler, Andrea Marcellusi, Francesco Saverio Mennini, Giampiero Favato, Mauro Picardo, Giorgia Garganese, Marco Bononi, Silvano Costa, Giovanni Scambia, Peter Zweifel, Alessandro Capone, Gianluca Baio
p956–968
Published online: October 16 2015
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) plays a role in the development of benign and malign neoplasms in both sexes. The Italian recommendations for HPV vaccines consider only females. The BEST II study (Bayesian modelling to assess the Effectiveness of a vaccination Strategy to prevent HPV-related diseases) evaluates 1) the cost-effectiveness of immunization strategies targeting universal vaccination compared with cervical cancer screening and female-only vaccination and 2) the economic impact of immunization on various HPV-induced diseases.