Multi-criteria decision analysis for setting priorities on HIV/AIDS interventions in Thailand.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A wide range of preventive, treatment, and care programs for HIV/AIDS are currently available and some of them have been implemented in Thailand. Policy makers are now facing challenges on how the scarce resources for HIV/AIDS control can be spent more wisely. Although effectiveness and cost-effectiveness information is useful for guiding policy decisions, empirical evidence indicates the importance of other criteria, such as equity and the characteristics of the target population, also play important roles in priority setting. This study aims to experiment with the use of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to prioritise interventions in HIV/AIDS control in Thailand.

Methods

We used MCDA to rank 40 HIV/AIDS interventions on the basis of the priority setting c

SUBMITTER: Youngkong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3310796 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature