Male Circumcision Decisionmakers Tool

The Male Circumcision (MC) Decisionmakers Tool is an Excel-based model that estimates the impact and cost of scaling up male circumcision services as an HIV prevention intervention. The model considers different policy options including target populations (all adult males, young males, adolescents, neonates, high-risk males, etc.) and different rates of scaling up MC coverage. Outputs of the model include cost per MC performed, number of HIV infections averted, and cost per infection averted. Total costs can be based on detailed facility-level inputs on the costs of service provision or on assumptions about the average costs per male circumcision performed.

Family-Friendly Workplace Model

The Family-Friendly Workplace (FFW) Model is designed to help managers analyze the costs and advantages of providing family-friendly benefits through the workplace. Family-friendly workplace policies provide benefits such as on-site health services, childcare, family planning, maternity leave, transportation, and flexible scheduling. As a result, employees can manage their careers and family responsibilities more successfully, while employers are better able to retain highly-skilled employees and reduce absenteeism. However, many employers are still unaware of the potential gains associated with creating a more family-friendly workplace. The FFW Model can be used to engage stakeholders to build support for family-friendly workplace policies.

Spectrum

Spectrum is a suite of policy models that make use of a unified set of Windows-based commands that can be easily learned. The models are used to project the need for FP/RH, MH, and HIV/AIDS services. Most models are available in English, French, and Spanish. Some are also available in Portuguese, Arabic, and Russian. Each model includes a detailed user manual that not only describes how to use the software but also includes sections on data sources, interpretation and use of the results, a tutorial, and a description of the methodology. The models included in the Spectrum system are: DemProj, FamPlan, AIM, RAPID, Ben-Cost, NewGen, PMTCT, Safe Motherhood, and Condom Requirements. Allocate is a tool used to relate program actions to goals and summarizes output from other Spectrum models.

Goals Model

The Goals Model helps efforts to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by showing how the amount and allocation of funding is related to the achievement of national goals, such as the reduction of HIV prevalence and expansion of care and support.

RAPID

A spreadsheet model to prepare projections of the social and economic impacts of high fertility and rapid population growth.

RAPID Presentation

The RAPID presentation is a Microsoft PowerPoint file that contains a typical RAPID presentation. The presentation is designed to illustrate the socio-economic impacts of high fertility and rapid population growth. The presentation is used to encourage policy dialogue about the need for effective family planning and reproductive health programs. The projections in the presentation are based on calculations made using either the RAPID module of Spectrum or the spreadsheet version of RAPID. This typical presentation can serve as the starting point for developing a custom presentation for a particular country or region. Presentations should always be customized to use local data, address local conditions and stimulate dialogue about the most appropriate response.

EPP: Estimation and Projection Package

The Estimation and Projection Package (EPP) is used to estimate and project adult HIV prevalence from surveillance data. The input to EPP is surveillance data from various sites and years showing HIV prevalence among pregnant women. EPP is used to fit a simple epidemic model to data from urban and rural sites. The prevalence projection produced by EPP can be transferred to Spectrum to calculate the number of people infected, AIDS cases, AIDS-related deaths,etc. The EPP model and manual in English, French, Spanish and Russian can be downloaded from the UNAIDS website.

Proximate Determinants of Fertility

An Excel spreadsheet that illustrates the proximate determinants of fertility model developed by John Bongaarts.

AIM-B: AIDS Impact Model for Business

AIM-B is an economic and demographic model designed to help managers analyze how HIV/AIDS is affecting their businesses and project how it will affect them in the future. This simplified on-line version of AIM-B estimates the main direct costs of HIV/AIDS in health, recruitment, and benefit costs. It does not estimate the epidemic’s affect on productivity, labor relations, workforce morale, or absenteeism.

Resource Needs Model

The Resource Needs Model is an Excel worksheet for calculating the funding required for an expanded response to HIV/AIDS at the national level. The worksheet contains three submodels: the prevention model, which calculates the cost of prevention interventions; the care and treatment model, which estimates the cost of care and treatment programs; and the orphan support model, which calculates the cost of interventions to support children orphaned by AIDS. The program and manual are available in English, Spanish, and French.

Workplace Policy Builder

The Workplace Policy Builder (WPB) is designed to help companies develop their own HIV/AIDS workplace policy.