Every minute a Nigerian man, woman, or child becomes infected with HIV. Soon Nigeria will be home to more people living with HIV than any other country in Africa. With 5 percent of its inhabitants already infected, Nigeria has reached the critical threshold that can catapult rates to nearly 40 percent of a country's population. The full magnitude of Nigeria's epidemic will be determined by its response now.

"AIDS in Nigeria" helps guide that response. Written by dozens of the country's leading HIV experts, the book explores the dynamics of the epidemic, analyzes prevention efforts,...

Assessing Child Survival Programs provides local health system managers with basic principles for rapid, precise programme monitoring and evaluation in difficult tropical conditions. Joseph Valadez explains how to adapt Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS), as used in industrial quality control more than half a century ago, to assess health programme coverage and technical quality of service providers. The author shows that by examining no more than 19 children from a health facility catchment area, a manager can judge whether coverage with child survival interventions has reached a minimal...

Contains 6 case studies that will be of keen interest to students of health and development, public heath professionals, and health technology developers - all who seek to improve access to health technologies in poor countries.