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WORKING PAPER

The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs - Working Paper 401
Gesine Meyer-Rath et al.
April 23, 2015
The South African government is currently discussing various alternative approaches to the further expansion of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in public-sector facilities. Alternatives under consideration include the criteria under which a patient would be eligible for free care, the level of covera...
WORKING PAPER

Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths - Working Paper 395
Willa Friedman
February 25, 2015
This paper looks at the impact of corruption on the effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs in preventing AIDS deaths and the potential channels that generate this relationship. 
Blog Post

Major Progress at the Global Fund: A One-Year ‘More Health for the Money’ Update for World AIDS Day
Rachel Bonnifield
December 01, 2014
Last September, we released a report on how the Global Fund could get more health for its money. In it, we offered concrete suggestions for improvements in several different value-for-money domains, all with an eye toward maximizing the health impact of every dollar spent.
Blog Post

World AIDS Day 2014: UNAIDS Shifts Its Emphasis toward Reducing New Infections
Mead Over
November 25, 2014
On World AIDS Day in 2003, WHO and UNAIDS launched a campaign called the “3 by 5 initiative,” with the objective to “treat three million people with HIV by 2005.” At that time, AIDS treatment was still prohibitively expensive for poor countries, where only a few thousand peop...