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January 15, 2010
The increased availability of life-saving medicines worldwide is having a serious unintended side-effect: a wide array of diseases -- from malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS to pneumonia and acute diarrhea -- is becoming resistant to the drugs we rely on to overcome them. To address this critical challenge, ...
January 15, 2010
Some critics allege that IMF programs in low-income countries unnecessarily limit health spending, hurting poor people. The IMF responds that its programs are designed to ensure the fiscal stability needed for poverty-reducing growth and that the IMF merely sets targets for overall spending, with co...
January 15, 2010
According to the annual AIDS Epidemic Update released this week, the number of people living with HIV (about 40 million) and the number of new infections (about 4.3 million) were roughly the same this year as in 2001. So is the epidemic getting better, worse or staying the same? Mead Over, an expert...
January 15, 2010
In its first four years, the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has become one of the most important aid agencies in the world, committing some $5.5 billion in grants to more than 130 countries. Next week the Global Fund will select a new executive director. CGD senior fellow Steve R...
January 15, 2010
IMF critics allege that its programs unduly constrain health spending in poor countries. The IMF argues that countries set their own spending priorities while the Fund monitors overall spending and fiscal sustainability. The issue has become more pressing, as countries seek to utilize scaled-up aid,...
January 15, 2010
The sudden death of World Health Organization director general Lee Jong-wook at the start of the World Health Assembly has created a leadership vacuum at a time when the WHO faces immense challenges. Ruth Levine, who heads CGD's Global Health Policy Research Network, argues that the WHO leadership ...
New from CGD
January 12, 2010
"Resource tracking" is a hot new topic in global health circles. Far from being of interest only to accountants and statisticians, data on the flow of money – how much, from whom and for what – is the subject of intense debates within the donor community, the policy community in developing countries...
BRIEFS
May 29, 2009
Rena Eichler and Ruth Levine summarize the findings of their book, Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls. Through numerous case studies, they show that carefully designed and implemented performance-based incentive programs can improve developing country health care in ma...