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The effectiveness of PEPFAR's funding for women and children with HIV/AIDS
Author(s) -
Kim Yiyeon
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.2706
Subject(s) - medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , developing country , environmental health , family medicine , economic growth , electrical engineering , economics , engineering
Summary Has President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief's (PEPFAR) funding been effective in reducing the rate of HIV new infections and AIDS‐related deaths among women and children? While previous studies have found HIV/AIDS aid to be ineffective and PEPFAR funding to produce negative externalities, there is lack of empirical examination of the impact of PEPFAR on women and children despite the emphasis on prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV during the Bush and Obama administrations. Using descriptive analysis and difference‐in‐differences (DID) regression, this study finds that PEPFAR's funding has reduced the HIV new infections and AIDS‐related death rates of women and children for both focus countries and recipient countries, which are those that were added in a second phase. These findings show that PEPFAR's strategy for women and children has been effective and that it should be continued. However, while PEPFAR has contributed to the fight against HIV/AIDS, the effects of its work have been underestimated.