Mead Over on Releasing PEPFAR Data
1/8/13
Mead Over says the United States has been a leader in the fight against the global AIDS epidemic, spending billions of dollars through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to hel
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Presentation from Mead Over on Achieving an AIDS Transition
5/8/12
Mead Over delivers a presentation on Achieving the AIDS Transition at a CGD book launch event.
Monitoring the Billions Spent for HIV/AIDS
11/8/11
Funding for HIV/AIDS has increased massively in the past few years. But is the money being used in the best possible way? In this short clip, CGD experts Nandini Oomman and Mead Over describe the HIV/AIDS monitor initiative which analyzes how PEPFAR, The Global Fund, and the World Bank deliver aid. The initiative has pushed for greater information disclosure and has made an impact on HIV/AIDS aid effectiveness.
Turning the Tide Through Better Prevention: Mead Over on the AIDS Transition
5/25/10
Even as the cost of treating HIV/AIDS has fallen dramatically, the number of people newly infected has remained high. What can be done to reverse this trend and finally defeat this disease? This week on the Wonkcast, I’m joined by Mead Over, a senior fellow here at the Center for Global Development and perhaps the world’s leading expert on the economics of HIV/AIDS. He has recently published two major essays, which introduce the concept of the “AIDS transition”—the point in time where the number of people living with the disease begins to fall. He argues persuasively that to reach this point, international donors must greatly strengthen incentives for effective prevention.
“We should be very proud of the accomplishment in bringing down the numbers of AIDS deaths,” says Mead. “But the number of new infections… has not fallen enough. And so the result is we have a new take-off in the numbers of people living with AIDS.” Since 1997, he says, the number of HIV-infected people has increased by 50%, rising from around 22 million in 1997 to 33 million today.