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BUDGETING FOR HIV/AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF PROVINCIAL HEALTH BUDGETS
Author(s) -
HICKEY ALISON,
NDLOVU NHLANHLA
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
south african journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1813-6982
pISSN - 0038-2280
DOI - 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2005.00043.x
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychological intervention , per capita , economic growth , medicine , business , environmental health , population , economics , virology , nursing
What is the best way to deliver funds to the provinces for HIV/AIDS interventions? This article analyses HIV/AIDS conditional grant (CG) spending and assesses the success of the new funding approach introduced in 2002/3 which channels HIV/AIDS funds to the provinces via the equitable share grant. Our research shows that on the whole provinces are improving their spending on the HIV/AIDS conditional grants and provinces are also beginning to allocate substantial funds from their own provincial budgets for HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector. Special emphasis is placed on ( a ) provinces' initiative to allocate additional funds to HIV/AIDS from their own budgets; ( b ) variances in per capita spending on HIV‐positive and AIDS sick populations across provinces; and ( c ) whether prioritisation of HIV/AIDS in health budgets might be squeezing out spending on other health services.