How much can we gain from improved efficiency? An examination of performance of national HIV/AIDS programs and its determinants in low- and middle-income countries

Table 2 A two-dimensional categorization of 45 countries in 2006

	Low or concentrated (25 countries)	Generalized (20countries)
Service scale-up mechanism	Type of HIV/AIDS epidemic
Resource oriented (22 countries)	Brazil, China, Jamaica, Mali, Mauritius, Paraguay, Peru, Thailand, Uruguay	Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Congo Dem. Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Lesotho, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
Efficiency oriented (23 countries)	Argentina, Belize, Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Lao RDR, Latvia, Nepal, Niger, Romania, Senegal, Vietnam	Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Haiti, Tanzania

Source: Authors' analysis of data compiled from 45 developing countries in 2006
Notes: The HIV/AIDS epidemics are classified according to WHO.^a We categorized countries according to the efficiency of their national AIDS programs using a separate DEA. for data in 2006 only. Countries above the median efficiency were termed "resource oriented" while those at or below the median were termed "efficiency oriented"

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