Assessment of INGO advocacy impacts on HIV/AIDS policy adoption in sub-saharan African countries

International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have assumed more global influence in low- and middle- income countries, more or less by collaboration with local and national governments. Advocating for national HIV/AIDS policy adoption and improvements in those countries is one of INGOs' primary goals. This analysis investigates whether INGOs have an impact on encouraging national governments in developing countries to react more progressively to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In particular, it tests whether the implementation of HIV/AIDS programs by INGOs at local levels encourage the adoption of national HIV/AIDS policy from bottom up. The analysis specifically focuses on prevention programs initiated by INGOs from 1991 till 2010 in individual Sub-Saharan African countries, and evaluating their impacts on national HIV/AIDS prevention policy adoption respectively. The dataset includes twenty INGOs in forty African countries from 1991 to 2010, and whether those forty Sub-Saharan African countries have adopted HIV/AIDS prevention policy after the implementation of INGO programs. A survival model design has been employed to evaluate the probability of national HIV/AIDS policy adoption after INGOs started to implement prevention programs. The preliminary outputs indicate that INGOs working on HIV/AIDS issues do in fact influence positively on HIV/AIDS prevention policy adoption in African countries. Local prevention programs established by INGOs have been examined to be a productive tool to impact national HIV/AIDS policy adoption. Therefore, the analysis concludes that NGOs are effective in advocating for more progressive HIV/AIDS policy in African countries.