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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Financing Global Health 2009: Tracking Development Assistance for Health</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, </span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">July 22 - 2009</span></font></b></p>
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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">Available online as PDF file [123p.] at:<br> <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_full_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_full_IHME_0709.pdf</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">July 22, 2009–Financing Global Health 2009 provides the most comprehensive picture available of the total amount of funding going to global health projects spanning two decades. It takes into account funding from aid agencies in 22 developed countries, multilateral institutions, 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.</span></font></p>
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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">This is the first in what will become an annual publication providing valid and consistent time-series data for tracking global health resources and offering in-depth analyses in the following three areas: development assistance for health, government health expenditure, and private health expenditure. This first report focuses on development assistance for health…..”</span></font></p>
<p><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="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Content: </span></b></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_overview_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Report Overview (1M pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
<br>· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_chap1_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy">Chapter 1:</span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> Tracking global health resource flows (200k pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_chap2_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy">Chapter 2:</span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> Development assistance for health (620k pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_chap3_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy">Chapter 3</span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">: Public development assistance for health (339k pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_chap4_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy">Chapter 4:</span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> Private philanthropy and development assistance (334k pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_chap5_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy">Chapter 5:</span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> Multilateral organizations and global health initiatives (420k pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_chap6_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy">Chapter 6</span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">: Distribution of development assistance for health (3.5M pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_conclusion_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Conclusion and References (595k pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_methods_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Methods annex (1.1M pdf*)</span></font></a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/print/reports/2009/financing/financing_global_health_report_statistical_IHME_0709.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Statistical annex (318k pdf*)</span></font></a><br>
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