HEU, Centre for Health Economics

Financing of High Cost Diseases and Treatments: HIV/AIDS . In, The Americas Social Security Report 2005: Labour Markets and the Fragmentation of Social insurance; Financing for HIV/AIDS by Social Security.  Mexico: Inter-American Centre on Social Security.

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?  Revista CIESS – Diciemebre, Numero 2: 27 – 36. 

In many ways mankind is at a defining moment in its history and this has come about because of a disease condition called HIV / AIDS. The truth is that the total number of persons living with HIV / AIDS now stands at more than an estimated 36.1 million. This reflects an increase of 2.5 million in the year 2000. A similar story holds in the case of the Caribbean where one source states that “more new cases of HIV / AIDS were reported in the Caribbean between 1995 and 1998 than had been reported since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s ”(World Bank 2000, vii)…see more.

Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Role of Health and Education (A Trinidad and Tobago Perspective).  Washington, D.C; Pan Américan Health Organization; Nov. 1995. 49 p. tab.(PAHO. Technical Report Series, 46).

Defusing the Time Bomb: Coming to terms with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. In, Caribbean Health. Vol. 4. No. 2.  Friary Press: Dorchester, United Kingdom.  

This paper focuses on program funding and deals specifically with the level of funding required its source and its allocation in curbing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean…see more.

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: Economic issues—Impact and Investment response.  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health Working Paper Series, Paper No. WG1:1 Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Center for International Developments; and Geneva, World Health Organization. 

[ABSTRACT] The paper presents updated information on the estimated impact of HIV/AIDS on the economies of the Caribbean. The author uses the output of a 1997 study on the economic impact of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago as the starting point and updates the projections for these two countries based on some adjustments to some of the underlying assumptions in respect of the epidemiology of the disease. Estimates are also derived for St. Lucia…see more.

Modelling the Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in the English Speaking Caribbean.  The South African Journal of Economics 68 (5) 916 - 932. 

The first case of AIDS was reported in Jamaica in 1982. Since then the epidemic has spread quickly and has taken an enormous toll on Caribbean populations impacting most heavily on young and middle-aged adults. Despite the fact that the predominant mode of transmission of the virus in the Caribbean context is via sexual contact of which 63% can be classified as heterosexual and 12% due to male to male contact available data suggest an underestimation of the latter group due largely to strong social cultural and legal discrimination against MSMs. As at March 2000 a total of 13772 cases of AIDS had been reported to the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) by nineteen of its member countries…see more.

The Economics of Health Sector Reform. In, Caribbean Issues: Caribbean Development Towards the Year 2000 - Special Edition, Faculty of Social Science, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Pages 58 – 85.

Fiscal Policy under Structural Adjustment: A Caribbean Approach. In, Structural Adjustment: Public Policy and Administration in the Caribbean. Pg 38 – 53. Ed. John La Guerre.  St. Augustine, Trinidad: School of Continuing Studies, UWI.

Privatization: Conditions for Success and Fiscal Policy Implications. Social and Economic Studies 41 (4): 133 – 148. See more.

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