Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: International Assistance from Donor Governments in 2011 - Report

Therefore, understanding how donors have responded to this crisis is critical to assessing efforts to address the AIDS epidemic around the world and in meeting the targets set out by United Nations Member States in the 2011 Political Declaration on AIDS.1 UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation have been tracking donor government assistance for AIDS in low- and middle- income countries since 2002.. [...] In 2011, for example, 6 members of the DAC did not contribute to the Global Fund, including Italy and Spain, several of whom have given in the past. [...] Notes: Bilateral funding includes HIV-earmarked multilateral funding; Multilateral funding includes Global Fund contributions adjusted to represent estimated HIV share based on Global Fund grant disbursements by disease to date (56% for HIV) and UNITAID contributions adjusted to represent estimated HIV share based on grant allocations 9 by disease to date (52.2% for HIV). [...] The research team solicited bilateral assistance data directly, from the governments of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, The United Kingdom, and The United States during the first half of 2012, representing the fiscal year 2011 period. [...] Although the Russian Federation is a Member of the G8 and has contributed to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), it has also been a net recipient of AIDS assistance, and therefore is not included in the donor analysis.