Reuters AlertNet features CGD's HIV/AIDS Monitor report "Seizing the opportunity on AIDS and health systems."
From the article:
"The three largest HIV/AIDS donors - the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Programme (MAP) - have spent US$20 billion on combating AIDS since 2000.
But a new report by the Washington-based Centre for Global Development, 'Seizing the opportunity on AIDS and health systems', launched at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City last week, suggests that AIDS donors may actually have weakened the health systems necessary for an effective AIDS response.
'The big HIV donors are creating AIDS-specific systems that compete for health workers and administrative talent, share the same inadequate infrastructure, and further complicate already complex flows of information,' said Nandini Oomman, lead author of the report."