Short description
This model is intended to support strategic planning at the national level by linking program goals and funding. It is designed to help planners to understand how funding levels and patterns can lead to reductions in incidence and prevalence of HIV and improved coverage of treatment, care and support programs.
Purpose
The purpose of this tool is to estimate the financial resources required to achieve program targets for HIV prevention, treatment, care and mitigation.
Methodology and type of data required
Goals uses the estimated budget allocations for each activity to calculate the coverage that can be achieved. The proportion of the population that can be covered is a function of the amount of funding, the amount of need for the service and the cost per person covered (unit costs).
The Goals model requires a wide variety of inputs, including detailed information about the strategic plan to be analysed, data regarding sexual behaviour by risk group, demographic data, base year human capacity, and assumptions about types of care and mitigation activities that will be provided. Standard values based on international experience are provided for some inputs.
Users/Target audience
Planners developing national HIV/AIDS strategic plans
Organization
World Health Organization (WHO); Futures Institute
Contact
John Stover – JStover@FuturesInstitute.org
Website
http://www.who.int/pmnch/knowledge/publications/costing_tools/en/index8.html
http://futuresgroup.com/resources/software_models/goals_model
Keywords
costing tool, planning tool
Note
Goals is integrated in the OneHealth tool and no further updates will be provided.
