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Economics Reference Group - Ninth Meeting
The ninth meeting of the Economics Reference Group (ERG) was held in Washington on 29 and 30 November 2011. World Bank’s Global HIV/AIDS Programme Director, David Wilson opened the meeting by stating that the task ahead of the participants was a difficult one and reiterated the current somber state of decreasing donor funds and waning global attention to HIV and AIDS programmes.
Day 1 Discussions
- The UNAIDS Investment Framework and its implications.
- Donor priorities, prospects for and distribution of financing of HIV programmes.
- Low and middle-income countries ability to pay from domestic sources as well as their experiences of country-level work on sustainable financing.
Day 2 Discussions
- The process and preliminary results of the RethinkHIV project headed by Bjorn Lomborg, debating the value and challenges of prioritising HIV and AIDS interventions on the basis of cost-benefit analyses.
The meeting was extremely well-attended by a diverse range of economists, academics, HIV and AIDS experts, practitioners and development partners.
Presentations
- Bernhard Schwartlander: Strategic Choices for Ending AIDS: A New Investment Framework.
- Markus Haacker: Global Distribution of Donor Funding for HIV and Responses to Constrained Resources
- Robert Greener: Prospects and Potential for Global Domestic Public Financing for HIV.
- Jen Kates and Josh Michaud: Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Global Health.
- Tomas Lievens: Sustainable Financing for HIV/AIDS: Overview of Six African Country Case Studies.
- Markus Haacker: Assessing the Fiscal Sustainability of the National Response to HIV/AIDS.
- Anit Mukherjee: Sustainable HIV/AIDS Financing in India.
- Bjorn Lomborg: RethinkHIV- Partnership between Rush Foundation and Copenhagen Consensus Centre.
- Hans-Peter Kohler: Assessment Paper on the Prevention of Sexual Infection.
- William McGreevey on behalf of Lori Bollinger: Prevention of Non-Sexual Transmission of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Mead Over: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of AIDS Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Bjorn Lomborg on behalf of Dean Jamison and Robert Hecht: Vaccine Research and Development.
- Michelle Remme: Going Upstream- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Policy Interventions to Enhance the HIV/AIDS Response in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- William McGreevey: Strengthening Health Systems for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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