Spending on health and HIV/AIDS: domestic health spending and development assistance in 188 countries, 1995-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comparable estimates of health spending are crucial for the assessment of health systems and to optimally deploy health resources. The methods used to track health spending continue to evolve, but little is known about the distribution of spending across diseases. We developed improved estimates of health spending by source, including development assistance for health, and, for the first time, estimated HIV/AIDS spending on prevention and treatment and by source of funding, for 188 countries.

Methods

We collected published data on domestic health spending, from 1995 to 2015, from a diverse set of international agencies. We tracked development assistance for health from 1990 to 2017. We also extracted 5385 datapoints about HIV/AIDS spending, between 2000 and 2015,

SUBMITTER: Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5946845 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature