:: RAPID Presentation :: AIM Presentation :: 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 comprising SPECTRUM are used to project the need for reproductive health services and the consequences of not addressing reproductive health needs. 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, interpreting and using 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 to relate program actions to goals and summarizes output from other Spectrum models. :: Workplace Policy Builder The Workplace Policy Builder (WPB) is a computer program used to assist companies/organizations in developing a corporate/organization HIV/AIDS workplace policy. :: 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 reduction of HIV prevalence and expansion of care and support. :: 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. A more thorough analysis of HIV/AIDS, current and future impact is available from the Futures Group, which also advise businesses on how to analyze and manage the risks of HIV/AIDS and launch effective, sustainable prevention and care programs. :: RAPID A spreadsheet model to prepare projections of the social and economic impacts of high fertility and rapid population growth. :: Resource Needs Model 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 12 prevention interventions; the care and treatment model, which estimates the cost of five types of care annd treatment programs; and the orphan support model, which calculates the cost of three interventions to support chilldren orphaned by AIDS. The program and manual are available in English, Spanish and Russian. :: 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. EPP was developed by the UNAIDS Reference Group on estimates, models and projections and programmed at the East West Center. 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. :: HIV/AIDS Policy Compendium A searchable database of national policies concerning HIV/AIDS. You can search by key word or do a free text search to find policy statements for particular issues (e.g., human rights, testing) or countries.