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.
By the year 2031, the AIDS pandemic will enter its 50th year, and funding needed to fight the pandemic in developing countries could reach as much as $35 billion annually – unless wise choices are made today to spend more efficiently and focus on prevention activities that can lower the number of new infections in the future and moderate costs for treatment and other measures to mitigate the negative impacts of AIDS on individuals and their communities.
The aids2031 Costs and Financing Project is pleased to be able to share eleven papers of our technical reports series. The papers address a range of issues including the estimation of future AIDS resource needs, the various options for financing, and the sociopolitical landscape in which AIDS programs are implemented. Papers are available for download here. A synthesis report combining the findings from the technical reports will be available in the coming months.
R4D’s Farzana Muhib presented at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) conference in Bali, Indonesia on August 12, 2009. In her presentation, Farzana outlined the main findings of the aids2031 Costs and Financing Working Group, including Global and Asia-specific cost estimates for HIV/AIDS.
The aids2031 Costs and Financing Project hosted a two-day Technical Review Meeting in Washington DC, attended by nearly 50 experts in economics, public health, and management. More than a dozen papers were presented and reviewed on AIDS resource needs and mobilization issues from now through 2031. The findings and recommendations from the papers will be used in the overall synthesis report, to be produced by Managing Director Rob Hecht and his R4D team later this year.
At the aids2031 Steering Committee Meeting held in London Oct. 7-8, 2008, John Stover of the Futures Institute presented a plan for a long term cost model for HIV/AIDS. Current cost estimates project only a few years into the future and look at a limited set of scenarios. The Futures Institute will extend these estimates to 2031 and evaluate these costs in 4 different scenarios. The plans for this project, as well as the scenarios, are described in his presentation accessible here.
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