Potential for additional government spending on HIV/AIDS in 137 low-income and middle-income countries: an economic modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Between 2012 and 2016, development assistance for HIV/AIDS decreased by 20·0%; domestic financing is therefore critical to sustaining the response to HIV/AIDS. To understand whether domestic resources could fill the financing gaps created by declines in development assistance, we aimed to track spending on HIV/AIDS and estimated the potential for governments to devote additional domestic funds to HIV/AIDS.

Methods

We extracted 8589 datapoints reporting spending on HIV/AIDS. We used spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression to estimate a complete time series of spending by domestic sources (government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket) and spending category (prevention, and care and treatment) from 2000 to 2016 for 137 low-income and middle-income countries (LMI

SUBMITTER: Haakenstad A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6540601 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature