Health Systems 20/20 Contributes to Lancet Article Examining Interactions between Global Health Initiatives and Health Systems
Aug 18 2009
Over the past two decades the emergence of several large disease-specific global initiatives (GHI) has shifted the way development assistance in public health is provided. To help assess the interaction between GHIs and country health systems, Health Systems 20/20 staff Susna De, Wenjuan Wang, Jenna Wright, and Takondwa Mwase participated in the WHO Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group. Their multiple-country analysis on financing HIV/AIDS work contributed to the Group’s report, the highlights of which appear in a recent Lancet article.
The WHO Group makes five recommendations: health systems strengthening needs to be a higher priority for GHIs; targets for GHIs need to include indicators for health systems; GHIs need to work harder to collect more reliable information about their effects; and donors need to increase their financial support of not only GHIs, but also of health systems. Drawing together ministers from over 50 countries and leaders from several major GHIs, a discussion on how to implement these proposals as a matter of urgency was held in June. Health Systems 20/20’s Steve Muchiri, attended the meeting.
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Source: Lancet
