Costing tools
Resource Needs Model, HIV/AIDS
Futures Institute
The Resource Needs Model (RNM) calculates the total resources needed for prevention, care, and orphan support for HIV/AIDS on a national level. The RNM can assist national-level strategic planning efforts by providing a tool and methodology to examine the financial resources needed to implement a variety of prevention interventions, care and treatment programs, and orphan support. Resource Needs Model = An Excel worksheet for calculating the funding required for an expanded response to HIV/AIDS at the national level. It includes 14 prevention programs, six care and treatment programs and orphan support. The program and manual are available in English, Spanish and Russian. This manual was developed for the Inter American Development Bank by Lori Bollinger and John Stover of Futures Group International and Stefano Bertozzi and Juan Pablo Gutierrez of the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica of Mexico.
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Summary of main features
| Purpose | To estimate the financial resources required to reach target coverage levels for HIV prevention, treatment, care and mitigation |
| Health MDGs addressed | 6 (HIV/AIDS) |
| Scope of interventions | All prevention, treatment and mitigation interventions |
| Type of software | Excel |
| User manual available | Yes |
| Potential users | Planners developing national HIV/AIDS strategic plans |
| Skills required | Knowledge of program statistics, goals and unit costs |
| Type and length of training required | One day |
| Costing strategy and methods | Target population x coverage x unit cost |
| Level of aggregation | National or provincial/state by intervention |
| Program/system costs included? | Yes |
| Time-frame | Short-term and medium-term |
| Modeling of intervention impact or interactions on epidemiology or demography | No |
| Output | Resources needed |
| Automatic generation of reports | Tables yes, reports no. |
| Country applications | Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Honduras, Thailand, Viet Nam, Indonesia, China. Additional RNM applications were made in 2002 for about 80 countries through regional workshops. |