Web Resources

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

An excellent, transparent website that has information in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. Details of grants are available as Excel spreadsheets and users can customize their own reports. Grant performance reports are also available, as are analyses of resource needs. Press releases announce contributions, accomplishments, and problems such as corruption and related grant suspensions or terminations.

President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

PEPFAR doesn't make it easy for find the funding data, but it's on the site. Go the bottom of the page and look at "key public information" and also the annual reports to Congress.

World Bank Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program

The site has links to specific grants and loans by country, as well as a report in English, French and Portuguese that critically evaluate the program. For older evaluations, see "The World Bank's Global HIV/AIDS Program of Action" and "Committing to Results: Improving the Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS Assistance."

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The foundation's Global Health program invests heavily in HIV/AIDS, but figuring out exactly who receives the money takes some legwork. The foundation prepared this table for Science to help simplify things.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

The motherlode of HIV/AIDS statistics, including updates on even numbered years that have prevalence for each country. UNAIDS also has reports on financing under "publications" ("Financial Resources Required to Achieve Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment Care and Supports" is particularly thorough). The UNGASS country progress reports also have loads of current information.

Kaiser Family Foundation

In addition to hundreds of facts sheets and studies about HIV/AIDS, the site has links to databases that track funding and country-by-country progress in delivering antiretroviral drugs.

Global HIV Prevention Working Group

Reports on gaps between prevention needs and funding.

Center for Global Development

Critical analyses of PEPFAR, Global Fund, and the World Bank MAP

African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP)

This Botswana initiative funded by the Gates Foundation and the pharmaceutical company Merck has links to ACHAP reports and government documents.

Aidspan

A Global Fund watchdog that publishes the Global Fund Observer, reports and guides, and grant analyses.

The HIV Databases

The Los Alamos National Laboratory offers searchable databases that have more than 250,000 HIV genetic sequences, the geographic distribution of viral subtypes, viral amino acid sequences that correlate with immune responses, and results from trials of AIDS vaccines in non-human primates.

NIH AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program

More than 8500 unique reagents are available to researchers around the world for nothing more than the cost of shipping.

Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study

A searchable database for publications from this long-running study and information about how to access the public data set.

Slicing the Pie (view the table)

This table looks at the 33 countries that have the most HIV-infected people and combines all committed and disbursed funds since 1989 from the World Bank, PEPFAR, the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation. More information on how the table was compiled is also available.