PEPFAR Investments in Governance and Health Systems Represented about One-Fifth of All Countries' Budgeted Funds, 2004-14

For more than a decade, the world's largest AIDS assistance program has allocated one-fifth of its budget, or $5.2 billion on strengthening health systems in poor countries with high rates of AIDS. In this Health Affairs article, Center Faculty Associate Corrina Moucheraud and coauthors analyze how much money each nation devotes to this segment of the program's investments and found that the countries with the biggest PEPFAR budgets also had the smallest shares allocated to health systems -- and this relationship remained even controlling for a country's HIV burden.

• Corrina Moucheraud, ScD, MPH
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