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HIV Allocative Efficiency and Financial Commitment Studies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, using Optima
Project Summary
In the new environment of limited resources for HIV responses,听focused HIV response design, better targeting of resources, and听efficiency in program delivery are essential to ensure that programs听can do more with less.
The World Bank is leading a global effort to听undertake HIV Allocative Efficiency analyses in several countries听and the 果冻影院 IGH team are working in partnership with the World Bank, UNSW and country governments to perform the analyses in听selected countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The analyses听are carried out through an application of the mathematical modelling听tool called Optimization & Analysis Tool (Optima). Optima,听designed by a team at UNSW, is a mathematical model of HIV听transmission and disease progression, which uses an integrated听analysis of epidemic, program and cost data to determine an optimal听distribution of investment to better serve the needs of HIV and health听decision-makers and planners.
Through maximisation of health听outcomes, together with the most cost effective solutions, the听outcomes try to answer the question of 'How can HIV funding be听optimally allocated to the combination of HIV response interventions听that will yield the highest impact in the shortest period of time'?