Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target?

Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler ()

World Development, 2011, vol. 39, issue 10, 1704-1723

Abstract: We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS-related outcome variables. We do not find that ODA has prevented new infections. The results regarding the medical care of infected people are mixed: evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths exists for the major bilateral source of ODA, the United States, in sharp contrast to ODA from multilateral organizations.

Keywords: HIV infections; AIDS-related deaths; official development assistance; aid effectiveness; major donors; difference-in-difference-in-differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.033

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