The Socioeconomic Impact Of AIDS On Health Care Systems

UpDate is a section that will report developments in health policy issues and scheduled conferences of relevance to the field. In this issue we offer a summary of a Project HOPE conference on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and its socioeconomic impact on health systems worldwide. Also in this issue is a survey of funding for research on the Medicare prospective payment system by a group from Abt Associates, Inc.