The global fight against HIV/AIDS: is corruption such a big deal after all?

摘要

With the rapid increase in development assistance funding for health since 2000, corruption in healthcare attracts growing concerns, with the most recent example being the current debate about cases of fraud in grants of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM). However, both the development and health economics literature question the widespread assumptions that corruption is a major barrier for growth in general, and for efficiency in healthcare delivery in particular, and the extent to which coercive anti-corruption efforts are the most efficient tools for combating corruption.