Latin American and Carribean Out-of-Pocket Expenditures

Out-of-pocket expenditure on HIV/AIDS services and goods is the component in National HIV/AIDS Accounts that is most difficult to measure. Despite the pressing need for national data on out-of-pocket spending on HIV/AIDS, at present, for only a few countries in the world these data are available; the majority of them for the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. Using 1999-2002 aggregated data for 20 LAC countries from SIDALAC, the paper examines the levels of out-of-pocket expenditure on HIV/AIDS in LAC countries and explores macro-indicators that could predict out-of-pocket expenditure on HIV/AIDS in countries that lack these statistics.

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