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Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity.

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Kaplan, EH; Merson, MH
Published in: Am J Public Health
December 2002

The primary goal of HIV prevention is to prevent as many infections as possible. This requires allocating HIV-prevention resources according to cost effectiveness principles: those activities that prevent more infections per dollar are favored over those that prevent fewer. This is not current practice in the United States, where prevention resources from the federal government to the states flow in proportion to reported AIDS cases. Although such allocations might be considered equitable, more infections could be prevented for the same expenditures were cost-effectiveness principles invoked. The downside of pure cost-effective allocations is that they violate common norms of equity. In this article, we argue for a middle ground that promotes both equity and efficiency in allocating federal HIV-prevention resources.

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Am J Public Health

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ISSN

0090-0036

Publication Date

December 2002

Volume

92

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1905 / 1907

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Resource Allocation
  • Public Health
  • Primary Prevention
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Humans
  • Health Services Research
  • Health Care Rationing
  • HIV Infections
  • Financing, Government
 

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Kaplan, E. H., & Merson, M. H. (2002). Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity. Am J Public Health, 92(12), 1905–1907. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.92.12.1905
Kaplan, Edward H., and Michael H. Merson. “Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity.Am J Public Health 92, no. 12 (December 2002): 1905–7. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.92.12.1905.
Kaplan EH, Merson MH. Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity. Am J Public Health. 2002 Dec;92(12):1905–7.
Kaplan, Edward H., and Michael H. Merson. “Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity.Am J Public Health, vol. 92, no. 12, Dec. 2002, pp. 1905–07. Pubmed, doi:10.2105/ajph.92.12.1905.
Kaplan EH, Merson MH. Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity. Am J Public Health. 2002 Dec;92(12):1905–1907.
Journal cover image

Published In

Am J Public Health

DOI

ISSN

0090-0036

Publication Date

December 2002

Volume

92

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1905 / 1907

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Resource Allocation
  • Public Health
  • Primary Prevention
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Humans
  • Health Services Research
  • Health Care Rationing
  • HIV Infections
  • Financing, Government