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After having written here so many times about funding for development (and within it global health in particular), the readers of this blog would expect any title but "Global health funding is growing". The economic crisis has made some damage to the donor countries but the latest report from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation shows the funding is still growing.
The report (see link below) says: "While there are signs that some donors and countries have started to pull back, overall development assistance for health and total country spending on health continued to grow." Chirstopher Murray, IHME director explains: "As a percentage, the Global Fund is about a ninth or a tenth of the money", so the impact of lower Global Funding spending is greater on TB and malaria than on HIV because of the investment of PEPFAR (the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) on HIV.
The report says the development aid for health continued to rise throughout this year, but on a slower rate than before the economic crisis. Between 2001 and 2008, the aid for health more than doubled. That was when the pace of increase dropped: 3 percent between 2008 and 2009, and 4 percent each year between 2009 and 2011. Right now the amount stands at 27.73 billion USD. The US contribution has increased, but only 2 percent between 2010 and 2011. Not surprisingly, the largest proportion of the aid (which got about 30 percent) went to sub-Saharan Africa, followed by South Asia (7,2 percent).
Aside from development aid for health, public domestic spending on health has also increased from 368.68 billion USD in 2008 to 410.50 billion USD in 2009, which is 16 times the amount of aid for health! In a time of recession and economic crisis, donating money to developing countries tends to be more restrictive as aid depends a lot on the global economic climate. Lets wait and see what 2012 will bring and hope for a better economic envirornment for the sake of those who rely on international aid to survive.
read more: Financing Global Health 2011: Continued Growth as MDG Deadline Approaches
The report says the development aid for health continued to rise throughout this year, but on a slower rate than before the economic crisis. Between 2001 and 2008, the aid for health more than doubled. That was when the pace of increase dropped: 3 percent between 2008 and 2009, and 4 percent each year between 2009 and 2011. Right now the amount stands at 27.73 billion USD. The US contribution has increased, but only 2 percent between 2010 and 2011. Not surprisingly, the largest proportion of the aid (which got about 30 percent) went to sub-Saharan Africa, followed by South Asia (7,2 percent).
Aside from development aid for health, public domestic spending on health has also increased from 368.68 billion USD in 2008 to 410.50 billion USD in 2009, which is 16 times the amount of aid for health! In a time of recession and economic crisis, donating money to developing countries tends to be more restrictive as aid depends a lot on the global economic climate. Lets wait and see what 2012 will bring and hope for a better economic envirornment for the sake of those who rely on international aid to survive.
read more: Financing Global Health 2011: Continued Growth as MDG Deadline Approaches
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