{"id":187,"date":"2007-09-02T21:55:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T02:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/09\/02\/us-aids-funding-disbursement-gap\/"},"modified":"2007-09-02T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T02:56:02","slug":"us-aids-funding-disbursement-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/09\/02\/us-aids-funding-disbursement-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. AIDS funding disbursement gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation and her collaborators found that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/hivaids\/upload\/7347_03.pdf\">2006,<\/a> the U.S. promised much more for global AIDS funding than it disbursed for the second year in a row. In fact, the U.S. only disbursed 56% of bilateral funds that were promised. In 2006, the U.S. committed $2,362.8mn but only disbursed $1,320.9mn. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/hivaids\/upload\/7344-02.pdf\">2005<\/a>, the U.S. committed $1,918mn but disbursed only $1,095mn.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. was still the largest donor, contributing more than 44% of bilateral donations in that year, but it does raise questions. Is the gap a problem with U.S. overpromising or insufficient absorptive capacity in recipient countries? Would disbursement be higher if the U.S. delivered more funds through the Global Fund than through bilateral channels? (In 2006, the U.S. committed about $464mn to the Global Fund, only 58% (abou $269mn) of which went to AIDS.)<\/p>\n<p>Anybody know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation and her collaborators found that in 2006, the U.S. promised much more for global AIDS funding than it disbursed for the second year in a row. In fact, the U.S. only disbursed 56% of bilateral funds that were promised. In 2006, the U.S. committed $2,362.8mn but only disbursed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}