Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Network

Researching National and Sub-National Effects of Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives at the Country Level

Georgia

Effects of GFATM on Georgia’s Health System Development

Study Aim

The study aims to evaluate the impact of the Global Fund on the country’s health system with a number of key areas of focus: policy processes; the work of public and private organisations; human resources; pharmaceutical and commodity supply systems; HIV/AIDS high-risk groups and TB patients’ access to services and their experiences of stigma.

Themes

Themes include the effects of the Global Fund on:

• The impact of the Global Fund on Georgia’s health system on policy processes including human resources and pharmaceutical/ commodity supply systems
• Issues of alignment with country health systems, national and sub-national coordination between government agencies and NGOs
• HIV/AIDS high-risk groups and TB patients’ access to services and their experiences of stigma
• The work is built on a baseline study conducted in 2004 using an adapted SWEF network study protocol

Country Team

• Principal Investigator: Ketevan Chkhatarashvili.
  Curatio International Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia
  

Research Funder

• Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

Further information can be obtained from Aisling Walsh aislingwalsh@rcsi.ie or from Neil Spicer, neil.spicer@lshtm.ac.uk or from any of the individual country researchers.

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