Informing scale-up and resource allocation: the use of economic analysis

摘要

The papers in this section address a subset of the challenges for policymakers and planners that are critical to achieving universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care. These issues were posed in the 2006 'Making the money work' the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Annual Report [1]. Some of the topics include the successful mobilization of financial resources to sustain the rapid expansion of prevention, treatment and care programmes in developing countries, the strategic placement of labor, capital and financial resources needed to scale up programmes in developing countries, and the efficient implementation of alternative strategies identified by sound and practical research methodology to achieve the maximum positive impact on HIV-infected populations. The following papers demonstrate how economic analysis may be able to assist in overcoming these challenges and it can inform programme scale-up and resource allocation decisions.