AIDS funding

Does HIV/AIDS Funding Undermine Health Systems?

Dear Sir: We read with interest the recent article by Shepard and others, 1 which attempted to evaluate the impact of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) funding on Rwanda's health system. The headline of the associated press release is assertive: " Six-Year Study in Rwanda Finds Influx of HIV/AIDS Funding Does Not Undermine Health Care Services for Other ...

How AIDS funding strengthens health systems: progress in pharmaceutical management.

In recent years, new global initiatives responding to the AIDS crisis have dramatically affected-and often significantly improved-how developing countries procure, distribute, and manage pharmaceuticals. A number of developments related to treatment scale-up, initially focused on AIDS-related products, have created frameworks for widening access to medicines for other diseases that disproportio...

Has aid for AIDS raised all health funding boats?

Global health analysts have debated whether donor prioritization of HIV/AIDS control has lifted all boats, raising attention and funding levels for health issues aside from HIV/AIDS. We investigate this question, considering donor funding for 4 historically prominent health agendas-HIV/AIDS, health systems strengthening, population and reproductive health, and infectious disease control-over th...

Federal funding for health services research on AIDS, 1986-1991.

Funding policies for HIV and AIDS: time for change.

Funding for HIV and AIDS in England has been allocated to regions by a formula based on the number of cases of AIDS and HIV infection and on population size. Regions have distributed the resources directly to hospitals and community services. A survey of staff and managers in North East Thames region showed that funding arrangements have led to unsatisfactory development of services for HIV and...