Global HIV/AIDS funding and health systems : searching for the win-win
Date
2009
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Raven Press Books, New York, NY, US
Abstract
Donors, developing country governments, and NGOs
are searching for ways to use funding for HIV/AIDS programs that
strengthen the functioning of weak health systems. This is motivated
both by the realization that a large share of donor funding for global
health is and will continue to be dedicated to HIV/AIDS, and that the
aims of more and better treatment, prevention, and care can be
achieved only with attention to systemic capacities. For AIDS
resources to strengthen health systems, decision makers should: (a)
mitigate the risks that AIDS spending may weaken the ability of
health systems to respond to other health problems; (b) find ways for
procurement, supply chain, management information, and other
systems that are created to support AIDS treatment to be broadened to
serve other types of services; and (c) build upon the ways in which
AIDS programs have overcome some demand-side barriers to use of
services. In pursuing this agenda, donors should recognize that health
system development is a function of the national and local political
economy and place respect for national sovereignty as a central tenet
of their policies and practices.
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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DONORS, HIV/AIDS, HEALTH SYSTEM, AID PROGRAMMES, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, AID ADMINISTRATION, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH