The influence of constraints on the efficient allocation of resources for HIV prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate how 'real-world' constraints on the allocative and technical efficiency of HIV prevention programmes affect resource allocation and the number of infections averted.

Design

Epidemiological modelling and economic analyses in Benin, South Africa and Tanzania.

Methods

We simulated different HIV prevention programmes, and first determined the most efficient allocation of resources, in which the HIV prevention budget is shared among specific interventions, risk-groups and provinces to maximize the number of infections averted. We then identified the efficient allocation of resources and achievable impact given the following constraints to allocative efficiency: earmarking [provinces with budgets fund pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for low-risk wom

SUBMITTER: Stopard IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6511422 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature