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Three HIV-prevention interventions are evaluated using simple cost-effectiveness techniques. These interventions are holding needle-exchange programs for injection-drug users, training gay community leaders to lead out in behavioral change and testing surgeons for HIV. The main advantage of using cost-effectiveness to assess HIV-prevention strategies is its ability to use data to achieve public health goals. Policy makers can use cost-effectiveness analysis to distribute prevention resources among populations, based on differences in HIV incidence, program costs and effectiveness of interventions.