Posted at 12:49 a.m., Thursday, August 23, 2007
HIV contract awarded to East-West Center
Associated Press
The East-West Center in Honolulu has been awarded a $98,000 contract to provide technical support for Vietnam's HIV national estimates and projections for 2007.The Family Health International contract also calls for extending the ongoing analysis and advocacy project to Haiphong.
The center began developing computer models for tracking and projecting the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, a decade ago.
East-West Center-developed software now enables national health programs throughout the region to analyze local HIV epidemics and to develop effective responses.
