DOES DONOR ASSISTANCE FOR HIV RESPOND TO MEDIA PRESSURE?
研究媒体关注度是否影响捐助国对非洲的艾滋病援助拨款，发现媒体关注度越高，援助拨款越多，但可能挤占其他更致命疾病的援助。
HIV/AIDS is a heavily mediatised disease. In this article, we test whether media attention is affecting donors' disbursement of aid for HIV to African countries. We use information available on the number of articles and press documents on HIV issues and other health concerns published in donor countries to construct a proxy of media coverage. This proxy is then included as an explanatory variable in a regression of aid for HIV to Africa. After controlling for several donor characteristics, we find that greater media coverage increases aid disbursement. This may be good news for the HIV campaign but may result in displacement effects to the extent that other diseases that cause greater mortality and morbidity receive less media coverage than HIV and thus less health aid.