malaria
Winners and losers in the global health aid money-go-round
Ok, so you’ll have been following all the news on the GAVI replenishment and will know that the UK has pledged (pledged, mind you, not given – and pledges aren’t always met) a very generous $1.3bn between now and 2015 to help this public-private partnership support vaccines for pneumococcol disease and rotavirus (amongst others). In [...]
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Health Financing: What Role does the International Community Play?
In this month’s Health Policy & Planning, Eduardo Gomez and my paper on health financing in Brazil, Russia and India is published. Given that Amanda Glassman at the Center for Global Development and others have pointed out that this is the year where attention will be put on donor aid flows and domestic financing, I [...]
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Malaria Mortality in India
The Lancet recently released a study estimating adult and child malaria mortality in India. The findings have made headlines around the world due to a huge difference in these estimates compared to WHO’s. This study found 85,000 deaths before age 14 and 120,000 between ages 15-69, while WHO’s previous estimates were a total of 15,000 [...]
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