New Investment Framework for the global HIV response Lancet article
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New Investment Framework for the global AIDS response - UNAIDS Brief
Community mobilisation and the New Investment Framework
UNAIDS Investment Framework for AIDS: Questions and answers
Substantial changes are needed to achieve a more targeted and strategic approach to investment in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that will yield long-term dividends. Until now, advocacy for resources has been done on the basis of a commodity approach that encouraged scaling up of numerous strategies in parallel, irrespective of their relative eff ects.
We propose a strategic investment framework that is intended to support better management of national and international HIV/AIDS responses than exists with the present system. Our framework incorporates major efficiency gains through community mobilisation, synergies between programme elements, and benefi ts of the extension of antiretroviral therapy for prevention of HIV transmission.
It proposes three categories of investment, consisting of six basic programmatic activities, interventions that create an enabling environment to achieve maximum eff ectiveness, and programmatic efforts in other health and development sectors related to HIV/AIDS. The yearly cost of achievement of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support by 2015 is estimated at no less than US$22 billion.
Implementation of the new investment framework would avert 12·2 million new HIV infections and 7·4 million deaths from AIDS between 2011 and 2020 compared with continuation of present approaches, and result in 29·4 million life-years gained. The framework is cost eff ective at $1060 per life-year gained, and the additional investment proposed would be largely off set from savings in treatment costs alone
