Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding
| dc.contributor.author | Nattrass, Nicoli | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gonsalves, Gregg | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-29T07:21:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-29T07:21:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-29T07:14:31Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | There is a growing backlash against AIDS-related funding on the grounds that too many resources have been allocated to the AIDS response, especially to antiretroviral treatment (ART). Proponents claim that health systems have been undermined, money wasted and misdirected, and that Africans themselves believe AIDS resources should be allocated elsewhere. We argue that such sweeping generalisations are not supported by the evidence and that the backlash fails to recognise the cross-cutting nature of the AIDS response, the powerful role that civil society organisations can play in holding governments to account and the potential for building better health systems on the back of AIDS-specific interventions. The paper also discusses the contributions of economists William Easterly (2006) and Mead Over (2008) to the backlash, arguing that economists can contribute most constructively when they inform rather than pre-empt social choice, cast their analytical nets broadly rather than narrowly, and adopt a more political-economic perspective. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Nattrass, N., & Gonsalves, G. (2009). <i>Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19305 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Nattrass, Nicoli, and Gregg Gonsalves <i>Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19305 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nattrass, N., & Gonsalves, G. (2009). Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Nattrass, Nicoli AU - Gonsalves, Gregg AB - There is a growing backlash against AIDS-related funding on the grounds that too many resources have been allocated to the AIDS response, especially to antiretroviral treatment (ART). Proponents claim that health systems have been undermined, money wasted and misdirected, and that Africans themselves believe AIDS resources should be allocated elsewhere. We argue that such sweeping generalisations are not supported by the evidence and that the backlash fails to recognise the cross-cutting nature of the AIDS response, the powerful role that civil society organisations can play in holding governments to account and the potential for building better health systems on the back of AIDS-specific interventions. The paper also discusses the contributions of economists William Easterly (2006) and Mead Over (2008) to the backlash, arguing that economists can contribute most constructively when they inform rather than pre-empt social choice, cast their analytical nets broadly rather than narrowly, and adopt a more political-economic perspective. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 T1 - Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding TI - Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19305 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19305 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Nattrass N, Gonsalves G. Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding. 2009 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19305 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Economics and the backlash against AIDS-specific funding | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |