| Title: | Expanding access to antiretroviral treatment in Thailand : achieving treatment benefits while promoting effective prevention |
| Authors: | World Bank, Author |
| Publisher: | Washington : World Bank, 2012 |
| Size: | 1 vol. 26p. |
| Languages: | English |
| Descriptors: |
[Eurovoc] FINANCE > public finance and budget policy > public finance [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > economic geography > ASEAN countries > Thailand [Eurovoc] SOCIAL QUESTIONS > health > health policy [Eurovoc] SOCIAL QUESTIONS > health > illness > infectious disease > sexually transmitted disease > AIDS [Eurovoc] SOCIAL QUESTIONS > health > pharmaceutical industry > pharmaceutical product > medicament |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this report is to advise the Thai government and Thai society at large on the full range of benefits, costs and consequences likely to result from decision to expand public provision of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) through the National Access to Antiretroviral Program for People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPHA) and to assist with the design of implementation policies that achieve maximum treatment benefits, while promoting prevention and maintaining financial sustainability. Although affordable, expanding ART represents a long-term financial commitment that must be integrated into the budget processes. Once the Thai government begins to finance a patient's AIDS treatment, that access becomes an entitlement that cannot be sacrificed to budget cycles without incurring large political costs. Continuing to support existing ART patients for the rest of their lives and absorbing new ones while maintaining other health programs will require a 24 percent increase in the total health budget by 2013. Since no cure for AIDS is in sight, NAPHA is a long-run government commitment. The study recommends that Thailand accompany its expansion of the ART program with vigorous investigation of other promising opportunities to improve health cost-effectively. |
| Link for e-copy: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/485821468312355354/pdf/733540WP0Box370g0treatment0benefits.pdf |
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| 005177 | RHS 507 | Livre | Centre de documentation du CERDI / Ecole d'Economie | Salle de lecture | Available |
