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<h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global health funding soars, boosted by unprecedented private giving</span></font></b><em><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><br>
<br></span></font></i></em><em><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But 12 of the 30 countries with the highest disease burden aren’t receiving as much aid as healthier, and, in some cases, wealthier countries</span></font></i></em></h3>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">–Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.<br>
<br></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Press release: <a href="http://healthmetricsandevaluation.org/resources/news/2009/Jun_18_2009.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://healthmetricsandevaluation.org/resources/news/2009/Jun_18_2009.html</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9681, Pages 2113 - 2124, 20 June 2009 <br>
Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007at:<br></span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60881-3/fulltext" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60881-3/fulltext</span></font></a> <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“…..The research shows that funding for health in developing countries has quadrupled over the past two decades – from $5.6 billion in 1990 to $21.8 billion in 2007. Private citizens, private foundations and non-governmental organizations are shifting the paradigm for global health aid away from governments and agencies like the World Bank and the United Nations and making up an increasingly large piece of the health assistance pie – 30% in 2007. However, health aid does not always reach either the poorest or unhealthiest countries.<br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The study, <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60881-3/fulltext" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007</span></font></a>, appears in the June 20th issue of <em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Lancet</span></font></i></em> and provides the first ever comprehensive picture of the total amount of funding going to global health projects. It takes into account funding from aid agencies in 22 developed countries, multilateral institutions like the World Health Organization and hundreds of nonprofit groups and charities. Prior to this report, nearly all private philanthropic giving for health was unaccounted for, meaning that nearly a third of all health aid was not tracked. <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Overall, poor countries receive more money than countries with more resources, but there are strong anomalies. Sub-Saharan Africa receives the highest concentration of funding, but some African countries receive less aid than South American countries with lower disease burdens – like Peru and Argentina. Of the 30 low- and middle-income countries with the most illness and premature death, 12 are missing from the list of countries that receive the most health aid, including Angola, Ukraine and Thailand. <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"With no one tracking this massive growth in spending, it’s no wonder that some countries receive far more than their neighbors for no immediately apparent reason,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, professor of global health and director of IHME at the University of Washington, and co-author of the study. "We’re hoping that this attempt to count money that has never been counted before in a careful and consistent way will lead to greater transparency and better use of health resources.”</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some small island nations with relatively healthy populations like Micronesia and the Solomon Islands receive more health aid per capita than disease-stricken countries like Niger and Burkina Faso. Mali and Colombia have about the same level of sickness, but Colombia receives three times as much health funding. The study also found that two of the world’s emerging economic super powers, China and India, receive huge amounts of health aid. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“We don’t know exactly why some countries seem to be far outpacing other countries, but historical, economic and political ties appear to be a factor,” said Nirmala Ravishankar, an IHME research scientist and the study’s lead author. “Some of these small islands are former colonies of the countries now giving them aid, and, in other cases, health aid seems to coincide with defense spending or drug interdiction efforts. This is an area that begs for more research.”</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Where the money is being targeted within those countries also merits more scrutiny. Based on the research for 2007, HIV/AIDS receives at least 23 cents out of every dollar going into development assistance for health. Tuberculosis and malaria received less than a third of that, even though the combined burden for those diseases is greater than that from HIV/AIDS in developing countries and despite promises by G8 countries that those diseases would receive more funding. At the same time, about a nickel out of every dollar channeled to health assistance goes to system-wide health support – like funding for new clinics, doctor training and prevention programs – which is an area that global health experts have clearly identified as a priority. <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The study also reveals other key findings:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The scale-up of global health funding doubled from 1990 to 2001 and then doubled again by 2007. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The growth has been driven largely by donations from the U.S. government and U.S.-based private charitable organizations. In sheer volume, the U.S. accounted for over 50% of total development assistance for health in 2007. But, in terms of the fraction of national income that becomes health aid, the U.S. trails Sweden, Luxembourg, Norway, and Ireland. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation tops the list of private foundations providing global health aid, making up nearly 4% of all health assistance in 2007. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Food For The Poor, Population Services International and MAP International lead all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in spending on health aid, each contributing more than $1 billion in health assistance from 2002 to 2006. Six of the top 10 NGOs are religious organizations. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In-kind contributions, such as donated drugs, made up more than 90% of the revenues of some of these NGOs, and they made up more than 50% of their total overseas health expenditure for most years during the study period. Because donations of drugs from pharmaceutical companies are sometimes valued at current market prices, this has potentially resulted in an exaggeration of the magnitude of resources flowing via US NGOs. <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">More details will be published in <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)’</span></font></b></strong><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">s</span></b> upcoming report, <em><b><i><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Financing Global Health</span></font></i></b></em><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> 2009<br>
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA<br><br></span></b></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(N Ravishankar PhD, P Gubbins BA, R J Cooley MED, K Leach-Kemon</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MPH, Prof D T Jamison PhD, Prof C J L Murray MD); and Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (C M Michaud MD)<br>
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