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HIV/AIDS

The spread of HIV/AIDS is among the greatest challenges facing the developing world, and adds an extra burden to humanitarian, economic and national security priorities of rich and developing countries alike. This page highlights the center’s research, programs and events related to HIV/AIDS.

In addition, CGD is launching a new initiative called the HIV/AIDS Monitor that will examine aid effectiveness within donor-funded HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries.

Publications

Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It - Working Paper 144

U.S. global AIDS spending is helping to prolong the lives of more than a million people, yet this success contains the seeds of a future crisis. Escalating treatment costs coupled with neglected prevention measures mean that AIDS spending is growing so rapidly that it threatens to squeeze out U.S. spending on other global health needs, even to the point of consuming half of the entire U.S. foreign assistance budget by 2016. Mead Over argues that AIDS treatment spending could quickly become a global entitlement since withdrawing funding for life-saving drugs would mean death for the beneficiaries. He offers suggestions for avoiding a ballooning AIDS treatment entitlement, including greatly stepped-up prevention efforts.