BMJ  2008;336:1461 (28 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.a532

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Global health goals depend not just on more aid but better delivery

Peter Moszynski

1 London

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Funders of aid need to increase the amount they donate for health care and do more to ensure that the aid is delivered effectively, says a new report by Action for Global Health, a network of European non-governmental organisations. To assess the impact of global aid on the health of people in the developing world, the report looks at the amount of aid allocated to health and how it was delivered.

Using case studies from six developing countries, it recommends how the UK government and the European Commission can ensure progress in achieving international health goals, particularly in maternal and child health, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

A spokeswoman for the alliance, Elaine Ireland, said that the UK is currently Europe’s leading donor in the field of health care and has been doing considerably better than most of its European Union partners in overall expenditure on aid. The alliance . . . [Full text of this article]


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