Abstract:
The National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) (2011/12) is the first attempt to track all the
HIV/AIDS spending in Ethiopia from all sources (excluding out-of-pocket) and across all
sectors. The NASA provides an in depth examination of the HIV/AIDS by detailed categories of
activities, providers of services and the beneficiaries. NASA applies a standardised and
comprehensive methodology for collecting, coding and analysing of HIV expenditure. It allows
countries to understand if they are allocating funds according to their priorities and for the
greatest investment in terms of impact. However, for all the PEPFAR and MOH expenditure, the
usual NASA methods were not applied. Rather PEPFAR provided their total spending which
they collected through their Expenditure Analysis (EA), and the MOH provided their estimates
based on the National Health Accounts (NHA) from the previous year.
