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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMedCentral Research Open Access S4HARA: System for HIV/AIDS resource allocation Arielle Lasry1, Michael W Carter1 and Gregory S Zaric*2 Address: 1Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8, Canada and 2Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada Email: Arielle Lasry - alasry@; Michael W Carter - carter@mie.utoronto.ca; Gregory S Zaric* - gzaric@ivey.uwo.ca * Corresponding author Published: 26 March 2008 Received: 27 June 2007 Accepted: 26 March 2008 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2008, 6:7 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-6-7 This article is available from: /content/6/1/7 ? 2008 Lasry et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: HIV/AIDS resource allocation decisions are influenced by political, social, ethical and other factors that are difficult to quantify. Consequently, quantitative models of HIV/AIDS resource allocation have had limited impact on actual spending decisions. We propose a decision-support System for HIV/AIDS Resource Allocation (S4HARA) that takes into consideration both principles of efficient resource allocation and the role of non-quantifiable influences on the decision-making process for resource allocation. Methods: S4HARA is a four-step spreadsheet-based model. The first step serves to identify the factors currently influencing HIV/AIDS allocation decisions. The second step consists of prioritizing HIV/AIDS interventions. The third step involves allocating the budget to the HIV/AIDS interventions using a rational approach. Decision-makers can select from several rational models of resource allocat