Measuring the Child Mortality Impact of Official Aid for Fighting Infectious Diseases, 2000-2010

• Authors: Roberto Burguet.
• BSE Working Paper: 616 | September 15
• Keywords: ODA , child mortality , infectious diseases
• JEL codes: F35, J13, O15
• ODA
• child mortality
• infectious diseases

Aid for fighting infectious and parasitic diseases has had a statistically significant role in the under-five mortality reduction in the last decade. Point estimates indicate a country average reduction of 1.4 deaths per thousand under fives live-born attributable to aid at its average level in 2000-2010. The effect would be an average drop of 3.3 in the under-five mortality rate at the aid levels of 2010. By components, a dollar per capita spent in fighting malaria has caused the largest average impact, statistically higher than a dollar per capita spent in STD/HIV control. We do not find statistically significant effects of other infectious disease aid, including aid for the control of tuberculosis.