Rwanda : Will More People Be Tested for HIV if Clinics Are Paid Extra?
The world has made great strides toward ending AIDS. Yet the deadly disease remains a critical development challenge for poor countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, which has only 12 percent of the global population, is home to about 68 percent of all peop...
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okr-10986-226342021-04-23T14:04:10Z Rwanda : Will More People Be Tested for HIV if Clinics Are Paid Extra? World Bank AIDS TREATMENT CIVIL WAR CLINICS COUNSELING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISEASE EFFECTIVE POLICIES FACT SHEET GENOCIDE GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH CARE HEALTH CLINICS HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE HIV HIV INFECTION HIV POSITIVE HIV TESTING HIV TRANSMISSION HIV/AIDS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL IMPROVING HEALTH CARE INFORMED CONSENT INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY JOB OPPORTUNITIES MEDICAL CARE MOTHER MOTHER-CHILD TRANSMISSION NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF PEOPLE POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DENSITY PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH QUALITY OF HEALTH RISK OF INFECTION RISK OF TRANSMISSION SEX SEXUAL PARTNER SEXUAL PARTNERS TREATMENT UNAIDS VIRUS WORKERS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION The world has made great strides toward ending AIDS. Yet the deadly disease remains a critical development challenge for poor countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, which has only 12 percent of the global population, is home to about 68 percent of all people living with HIV. Improving rates of HIV testing in order to identify and counsel infected people is necessary for halting transmission of the virus and ensuring that people who are infected can get treated. The challenge is how to improve rates of testing, especially among couples where one partner is infected and either doesn t know or hasn t told the partner. Increasingly, pay-for-performance is being considered as an option for improving health care for pregnant women and children. Development experts and policymakers are interested in whether bonus payments can work in other areas of health care, such as improving the rate of HIV testing and treatment, especially in couples. evaluation found that the payments increased the likelihood that people who were part of a couple would get tested, showing that pay-for-performance could be a route for improving testing (and thus making available information on how to prevent HIV transmission) among those who face risk of infection from their partner. The results are particularly important for Sub-Saharan Africa, where according to 2009 World Health Organization data, nearly 80 percent of HIV-infected adults are unaware of their HIV status, and more than 90 percent don t know if their partners are infected. 2015-09-16T21:06:39Z 2015-09-16T21:06:39Z 2015-02 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24089722/rwanda-more-people-tested-hiv-clinics-paid-extra http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22634 English en_US From evidence to policy; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Rwanda |
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AIDS TREATMENT CIVIL WAR CLINICS COUNSELING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISEASE EFFECTIVE POLICIES FACT SHEET GENOCIDE GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH CARE HEALTH CLINICS HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE HIV HIV INFECTION HIV POSITIVE HIV TESTING HIV TRANSMISSION HIV/AIDS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL IMPROVING HEALTH CARE INFORMED CONSENT INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY JOB OPPORTUNITIES MEDICAL CARE MOTHER MOTHER-CHILD TRANSMISSION NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF PEOPLE POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DENSITY PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH QUALITY OF HEALTH RISK OF INFECTION RISK OF TRANSMISSION SEX SEXUAL PARTNER SEXUAL PARTNERS TREATMENT UNAIDS VIRUS WORKERS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION |
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AIDS TREATMENT CIVIL WAR CLINICS COUNSELING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISEASE EFFECTIVE POLICIES FACT SHEET GENOCIDE GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH CARE HEALTH CLINICS HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE HIV HIV INFECTION HIV POSITIVE HIV TESTING HIV TRANSMISSION HIV/AIDS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL IMPROVING HEALTH CARE INFORMED CONSENT INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY JOB OPPORTUNITIES MEDICAL CARE MOTHER MOTHER-CHILD TRANSMISSION NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF PEOPLE POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DENSITY PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH QUALITY OF HEALTH RISK OF INFECTION RISK OF TRANSMISSION SEX SEXUAL PARTNER SEXUAL PARTNERS TREATMENT UNAIDS VIRUS WORKERS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION World Bank Rwanda : Will More People Be Tested for HIV if Clinics Are Paid Extra? |
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The world has made great strides toward
ending AIDS. Yet the deadly disease remains a critical
development challenge for poor countries. Sub-Saharan
Africa, which has only 12 percent of the global population,
is home to about 68 percent of all people living with HIV.
Improving rates of HIV testing in order to identify and
counsel infected people is necessary for halting
transmission of the virus and ensuring that people who are
infected can get treated. The challenge is how to improve
rates of testing, especially among couples where one partner
is infected and either doesn t know or hasn t told the
partner. Increasingly, pay-for-performance is being
considered as an option for improving health care for
pregnant women and children. Development experts and
policymakers are interested in whether bonus payments can
work in other areas of health care, such as improving the
rate of HIV testing and treatment, especially in couples.
evaluation found that the payments increased the likelihood
that people who were part of a couple would get tested,
showing that pay-for-performance could be a route for
improving testing (and thus making available information on
how to prevent HIV transmission) among those who face risk
of infection from their partner. The results are
particularly important for Sub-Saharan Africa, where
according to 2009 World Health Organization data, nearly 80
percent of HIV-infected adults are unaware of their HIV
status, and more than 90 percent don t know if their
partners are infected. |
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Rwanda : Will More People Be Tested for HIV if Clinics Are Paid Extra? |
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