Closing the Financial Gap of Antiretroviral and HIV Supplies for Sustainability of HIV National Response in the Dominican Republic

Closing the Financial Gap of Antiretroviral and HIV Supplies for Sustainability of HIV National Response in the Dominican Republic

By: C. Valdez, E. Barillas, M. Diaz, A. Mesa
Publication: Value in Health Nov. 2015; 18 (7): A572. DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2015.09.1890.

Abstract

Since 2004 public provision of ARVs in the Dominican Republic has been funded, by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). Until 2009 there was a gross correspondence between the increase in the number of treated cases and the funding. From 2009 to 2012, however, the number of cases grew at an average rate of 33.4% (2,958 cases) per year, whereas funding experienced an average decrease of 21.7% (965,382 USD) per year. In 2012, the Ministry of Health (MoH) carried out the first national quantification exercise for the 2013 procurement of medicines, under a standard forecasting methodology.