Software:
Futures Institute designs analytical computer models to support effective policymaking
through analysis of existing information, impacts of specific programs and projections of
demographic and other social and economic topics.
Spectrum is a suite of easy to use policy models which provide policymakers with an
analytical tool to support the decision making process. Models included in the SPECTRUM
system are: DemProj, FamPlan, AIM, RAPID, LiST, PMTCT, Safe Motherhood, GOALS,
and Condom Requirements.
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.
An Excel worksheet for calculating the funding required for an expanded response
to HIV/AIDS at the national level.
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.
An Excel-based database that evaluates the literature for HIV/AIDS interventions.