About Sidalac Archives
SIDALAC Archives is a website for publications that were products of the Regional AIDS Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean (SIDALAC), whose objective was to contribute to the mobilization of national and international efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean in the response to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
The Mexican Health Foundation, A.C. (FUNSALUD), implemented the SIDALAC Initiative (1995-2006). Initially at the express request of the World Bank; subsequently, it worked closely with the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) and through various funding sources.
SIDALAC Initiative covered various aspects of the response to HIV / AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as were anti-retroviral access; basic and clinical sciences; social Sciences; economic; epidemiology; Breastfeeding; prevention; prisons and civil society.
One of the parcels SIDALAC was responsible, was to promote a new vision for the AIDS response: National Accounts HIV / AIDS or estimating "Financial Flows and spending on HIV / AIDS" based on the model conceptual of the "National Health Accounts", which was an important knowledge within national AIDS programs. On the one hand, he described the financial dimension of national responses, and provided a sound basis for determining the unmet needs of the response to HIV / AIDS, and described the composition of the current spending; and secondly, this information suggested what is the effectiveness of current spending and the gap between this expenditure and expected by national strategic plans, and even with the ideals of national response.
Another dimension of interest of National Accounts in HIV / AIDS was that despite being inspired by the National Health Accounts, they made the necessary methodological modifications to take the specificity of spending on a specific entity (in contrast with national accounts health do not break down each disease), and especially to include separately the expenditure outside the health sector that can be of great importance in national and international responses to AIDS.
In 1999 the proposal "Health Systems and National Accounts of HIV / AIDS in Latin America" for funding to the Commission of European Communities, which was obtained through a specific contract with the European Commission and was presented Funsalud. This project allowed to apply the methodology that was developed initially in four pilot countries (Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico and Uruguay), and later in all Latin American countries except Ecuador.
