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National Health Accounts (NHA) Subaccounts: Tracking Health Expenditures to Meet the Millennium Development Goals

Over the past decade, international investment in health has increased at a rapid pace, exemplified by the dramatic rise in funding for HIV/AIDS, which grew from US$292 million in 1996 to approximately US$10 billion in 2007. This additional funding is critical to make progress toward the three health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but whether or not this leads to actual improvements in health depends upon how the monies are spent.

Author: Darwin Young and Douglas Glandon
Published: Mar 1 2009