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Transparency & Accountability Program

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Since its inception in 2006, the Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) has strengthened the capacity of independent monitoring organizations (IMOs) in low- and middle-income countries to better hold their governments accountable and to promote improvements in social sector public spending and service delivery. 

 

 

 

Main Contact: 
Caroline Poirrier
Website: 
http://tap.resultsfordevelopment.org
Funder: 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Caroline Poirrier
Courtney Heck
Courtney Tolmie
Nicholas Burnett

Long-Run Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

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South Africa is facing a mounting financial challenge in its fight against the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. With 5.7 million people currently infected with the HIV virus and an additional half million adults and children becoming newly infected each year, South Africa stands at a critical crossroads.

South Africa is facing a mounting financial challenge in its fight against the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. With 5.7 million people currently infected with the HIV virus and an additional half million adults and children becoming newly infected each year, South Africa stands at a critical crossroads.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2010
Main Contact: 
Gabrielle Partridge
R4D Author(s): 
Farzana Muhib
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
Author(s): 
Teresa Guthrie, Nhlanhla Ndlovu, Kelsey Case
Funder(s): 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder(s): 
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Funder(s): 
UNAIDS
Connected Project: 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconaids2031 South Africa Report_Published 2010.pdf

aids2031 South Africa report launches "The Long-Run Costs and Choices of HIV/AIDS in South Africa"

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22 November, 2010

On November 19th, the aids2031 South Africa report, The Long-Run Costs and Choices of HIV/AIDS in South Africa was launched in Daveyton, South Africa. Read our feature story to learn more.

 

Click here to read the New York Times profile.

Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Project(s): 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Connected Publications & Resources: 
Costs & Choices: Financing the Long-Term Fight Against AIDS
The Long-Run Costs and Choices of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconaids2031_South-Africa_Report_FINAL2.pdf

Special Report on the State of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

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Earlier this year, a group of South Africa's forfront HIV experts met to share ideas on how to best reduce the epidemic. This Global Health Magazine article, coauthored by Managing Director Robert Hecht, discusses the main points of that meeting.

On January 21, a group of South Africa’s leading HIV experts met in Cape Town to discuss the state of prevention and treatment in the AIDS epidemic. Council on Foreign Relations Global Fellow Dr. Peter Navario convened the meeting for HIV/AIDS thinkers, policy makers, and practitioners to share ideas on how to best tackle the epidemic. This article, coauthored by Managing Director Robert Hecht, summarizes the analysis and recommendations that emerged from that meeting.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2010
Main Contact: 
Robert Hecht
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
Author(s): 
Peter Navario
Link to Publication-Resource: 
http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/summary/front_line_aids_fight

South African Health Minister meets with aids2031 team to discuss report on AIDS financing

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14 April, 2010

R4D Managing Director Robert Hecht and the South African co-chairs of the aids2031 study on the country’s long-term costs and financing of AIDS met with the Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, in Cape Town to discuss the study’s findings and recommendations.

Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Project(s): 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group

Farzana Muhib discusses aids2031 findings on the BBC's Health Check

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23 November, 2009

In preparation for World AIDS Day, the BBC invited Farzana Muhib, R4D's coordinator for the aids2031 Costs and Financing Project, to discuss future cost and financing scenarios for the global AIDS epidemic in their Health Check spotlight, "The Future for HIV/AIDS Funding."  Ms. Muhib highlighted the importance of "tough choice" spending policy decisions and more efficient management of resources now in order to curb future costs of the epidemic and achieve better health outcomes.

Connected Expert(s): 
Farzana Muhib
Connected Project(s): 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Connected Publications & Resources: 
Estimating Long-Term Global Resource Needs for AIDS through 2031
Fiscal Space and Political Space for Financing the Global AIDS Response to 2031
HIV and AIDS Programs - How they Support Health System Strengthening
The Evolution and Future of Donor Assistance for AIDS
The Future Role of the Philanthropy Sector Fighting AIDS
The Past, Present and Future of AIDS Resource Allocation
What Works to Prevent and Treat AIDS
Funder: 
UNAIDS

aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group

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aids2031 is a international consortium of partners examining the future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Costs and Financing Working Group is focused on modeling and analyzing the long-term costs and financing of the epidemic, and examining scenarios in which major policy shifts now can improve the future expenditure and financing situation.

Over the past 25 years, AIDS has imposed a huge cost, in economic and social terms, on many countries, communities, and households around the world. At the same time, the price tag to respond fully and effectively in the areas of prevention, care and treatment, mitigation, and research has grown to tens of billions of dollars, and is continuing to increase. There have been dramatic increases in funding, but available resources are now becoming increasingly tight as the global recession adversely impacts both donor and developing countries, and as other competing priorities (e.g.

Main Contact: 
Gabrielle Partridge
Website: 
http://www.aids2031.org
Duration: 
March, 2008 - June, 2010
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
UNAIDS
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
David de Ferranti
Gabrielle Partridge
Kira Thorien
Richard Skolnik
Robert Hecht
William McGreevey
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