Public Health Expenditure and HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Nigeria: An Evidence from Vector Autoregressive Methodology
Public Health Expenditure and HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Nigeria: An Evidence from Vector Autoregressive Methodology

Summary/Abstract: The paper was an attempt to investigate the impact of public health expenditure on diseases/epidemics in Nigeria particularly as development assistance for HIV/AIDS decreases. Data were sourced from World Development Indicator (WDI) from the period of 1982 to 2016 and analysis was done using a vector autoregressive (VAR) methodology. The findings from the VAR analysis indicate a negative significant relationship between hiv prevalence and governmentexpenditure on health. Per capita income suggests weak relationship with hiv prevalence. Shocksfrom government expenditure on health and per capita income caused a persistent downward spiral inhiv prevalence and most of the variations in hiv prevalence explained by government healthexpenditure. The paper recommends that government expenditure on health would be a viablealternative for the management and control of epidemics/diseases in Nigeria cum to achieve theHIV/AIDS goal by 2030 compare to per capita income of households.

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