Resource Type: Report
Authors: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Health
Published: August 2017

Resource Description:

This is a report of a national survey that was conducted in September-October 2016 to generate evidence for the sixth Ethiopian Health Accounts (HA VI), which estimated health expenditures for 2013/14. The survey collected data on health service utilization and expenditure among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). It sampled PLHIV from all nine regional states and the two city administrations of Ethiopia. Using the Networks of HIV Positives in Ethiopia (NEP+) – the national-level umbrella of regional PLHIV networks – as a sampling frame, a total of 4,171 PLHIV participated as respondents in the quantitative household survey administered for the study.

The purpose of this survey is to generate up-to-date empirical evidence on health service utilization and spending on health care by PLHIV in Ethiopia. The specific survey objectives are:

• To generate evidence on the relation between HIV/AIDS policy priorities and health and non-health spending by HIV-positive people;
• To understand the financing burden on HIV-positive persons in the country;
• To assess health service utilization rate by level of income and other socioeconomic characteristics of HIV-positive people; and
• To track HIV-positive people’s spending on different levels and types of health care services and commodities disaggregated by level of income and other important key features.
• To track HIV-positive people’s spending on different levels and types of health care services and commodities disaggregated by level of income and other important key features.