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Opportunities for Presidential Leadership on AIDS: From an “Emergency Plan” to a Sustainable Policy

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The paper argues that the United States has unwittingly created a new global ?entitlement? to US-funded AIDS treatment that currently costs about $2 billion per year and could grow to as much as $12 billion a year by 2016 ? more than half of what the United States spent on total overseas development assistance in 2006. And the AIDS treatment entitlement would continue to grow, squeezing out spending on HIV prevention measures or on other critical development needs, all of which would be considered ?discretionary? by comparison. JEL Classification: I12, I18, O15.

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  • Mead Over, 2009. "Opportunities for Presidential Leadership on AIDS: From an “Emergency Plan” to a Sustainable Policy," Revue d’économie du développement, De Boeck Université, vol. 17(5), pages 71-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:edddbu:edd_235_0071
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    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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