the aid library

LIST OPTIONS

Filter

3581

Global Fund Launches Private Sector Investment Opportunity Ahead of Critical Eighth Replenishment

The Global Fund The Global Fund (2025) CC

Private sector engagement opens pathways for a game-changing US$2 billion investment opportunity in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

External Link

External Link (150)

Chinese health funding in Africa: The untold story

Dolan C.B., Malik A.A., Zhang S., et al. PLOS Global Public Health (2023) CC

The motivations behind China’s allocation of health aid to Africa remain complex due to limited information on the details of health aid project activities. Insufficient knowledge about the purpose of China’s health aid hinders our understanding of China’s comprehensive role in supporting Afri... more

External Link

External Link (163)

Ambitions and realities: Are Global Fund investments designed to achieve resilient and sustainable systems for health?

Salisbury N., Nawaz S., Abenaitwe J., et al. PLOS Global Public Health (2024) CC

Strengthening resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH) is central to the Global Fund’s strategy, however questions persist about the Global Fund’s role in the health systems strengthening space, and the extent to which investments are designed to achieve strengthening objectives, or j... more

External Link

External Link (364)

Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis

Haakenstad A., Bintz C., Knight M., et al. Lancet Global Health (2023) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems in 2020, but it is unclear how financial hardship due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health-care costs was affected. We analysed catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, R... more

External Link

Comparing priority received by global health issues: a measurement framework applied to tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases and dengue fever

Parashar R., Nanda S., Smith S.L., et al. BMJ Global Health (2024) CC

The relative priority received by issues in global health agendas is subjected to impressionistic claims in the absence of objective methods of assessment of priority. To build an approach for conducting structured assessments of comparative priority health issues receive, we expand the public ... more

External Link

External Link (367)

Germany’s role in global health at a critical juncture

Franz C., Holzscheiter A., Kickbusch I., et al. Lancet (2024) CC

When we presented our analysis of Germany’s role in global health in 2017 at an event in Berlin, Richard Horton, the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, asked only half-jokingly whether we could expect Germany to finally shrug off the habitus of the “reluctant leader” and “step up”. Back t... more

External Link

External Link (174)

How feasible is it to mobilize $31 billion a year for pandemic preparedness and response? An economic growth modelling analysis

Shahid M., Schäferhoff M., Brown G., et al. Globalization and Health (2024) CC

Covid-19 has reinforced health and economic cases for investing in pandemic preparedness and response (PPR). The World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) propose that low- and middle-income governments and donor countries should invest $31.1 billion each year for PPR. We analyse, based on the... more

External Link

What next for UK development assistance under the next government?

Buse K., McKee M. British Medical Journal (BMJ) (2024) CC

The UK could regain its leadershipin the provision of development assistance for healthunder the next government. But this doesn’t seem likely if the party manifestos are any guide.

Download (73)

View PDF (74)

Official Development Assistance (ODA) mit Fokus auf Gesundheit und Deutschland

Tilman Rüppel and Joachim Rüppel medmissio (2025) CC

Dieses Dokument stellt aktuelle Ergebnisse zum Thema Official Development Assistance (ODA) mit Fokus auf Gesundheit und Deutschland zur Verfügung.

External Link

External Link (93)

Estimates of aid for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: findings from application of the Muskoka2 method, 2002–17

Dingle, A.; Schäferhoff, M.; Borghi, J. et al. The Lancet (2020) CC

Background Four methods have previously been used to track aid for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH). At a meeting of donors and stakeholders in May, 2018, a single, agreed method was requested to produce accurate, predictable, transparent, and up-to-date estimates that coul...d be used for analyses from both donor and recipient perspectives. Muskoka2 was developed to meet these needs. We describe Muskoka2 and present estimates of levels and trends in aid for RMNCH in 2002–17, with a focus on the latest estimates for 2017. Methods Muskoka2 is an automated algorithm that generates disaggregated estimates of aid for reproductive health, maternal and newborn health, and child health at the global, donor, and recipient-country levels. We applied Muskoka2 to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Creditor Reporting System (CRS) aid activities database to generate estimates of RMNCH disbursements in 2002–17. The percentage of disbursements that benefit RMNCH was determined using CRS purpose codes for all donors except Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the UN Population Fund; and UNICEF; for which fixed percentages of aid were considered to benefit RMNCH. We analysed funding by donor for the 20 largest donors, by recipient-country income group, and by recipient for the 16 countries with the greatest RMNCH need, defined as the countries with the worst levels in 2015 on each of seven health indicators. Findings After 3 years of stagnation, reported aid for RMNCH reached $15·9 billion in 2017, the highest amount ever reported. Among donors reporting in both 2016 and 2017, aid increased by 10% ($1·4 billion) to $15·4 billion between 2016 and 2017. Child health received almost half of RMNCH disbursements in 2017 (46%, $7·4 billion), followed by reproductive health (34%, $5·4 billion), and maternal and newborn health (19%, $3·1 billion). The USA ($5·8 billion) and the UK ($1·6 billion) were the largest bilateral donors, disbursing 46% of all RMNCH funding in 2017 (including shares of their core contributions to multilaterals). The Global Fund and Gavi were the largest multilateral donors, disbursing $1·7 billion and $1·5 billion, respectively, for RMNCH from their core budgets. The proportion of aid for RMNCH received by low-income countries increased from 31% in 2002 to 52% in 2017. Nigeria received 7% ($1·1 billion) of all aid for RMNCH in 2017, followed by Ethiopia (6%, $876 million), Kenya (5%, $754 million), and Tanzania (5%, $751 million). Interpretation Muskoka2 retains the speed, transparency, and donor buy-in of the G8's previous Muskoka approach and incorporates eight innovations to improve precision. Although aid for RMNCH increased in 2017, low-income and middle-income countries still experience substantial funding gaps and threats to future funding. Maternal and newborn health receives considerably less funding than reproductive health or child health, which is a persistent issue requiring urgent attention. Funding Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. more

Download (86)

View PDF (76)

Folgen der US-Kürzungen und der Auflösung von USAID: Eine Analyse und Handlungsempfehlungen für Akteure in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Liebau L., Rüppel T., Schottmayer K. medmissio (2025) CC

Dieses Dokument bietet eine Problemanalyse der US-Kürzungen im Bereich globale Gesundheit und leitet daraus konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für medizinische Akteure ab. Im Fokus steht die Analyse der direkten Auswirkungen auf die gesundheitsspezifische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.

Download (86)

View PDF (62)

Folgen der US-Kürzungen und der Auflösung von USAID: Eine Analyse und Handlungsempfehlungen für Akteure in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit - Kurzfassung

Liebau L., Rüppel T., Schottmayer K. medmissio (2025) CC

Diese zweiseitige Kurzfassung bietet eine Problemanalyse der US-Kürzungen im Bereich globale Gesundheit und leitet daraus konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für medizinische Akteure ab. Im Fokus steht die Analyse der direkten Auswirkungen auf die gesundheitsspezifische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.

Download (502)

View PDF (507)

Consequences of the US budget cuts and the dissolution of USAID: An analysis and recommendations for action for stakeholders in international development cooperation

Liebau L., Rüppel T., Schottmayer K. medmissio (2025) CC

This publication provides a problem analysis of the U.S. cuts in global health and derives concrete recommendations for action for medical actors. The focus is on analyzing the direct effects on health-specific development cooperation.

Download (37)

View PDF (41)

Unersetzlich, wirksam, günstig, verantwortungsvoll: Warum ODA für globale Gesundheit entscheidend ist

Tilman Rüppel and Joachim Rüppel medmissio (2025) CC

Diese Publikation erklärt anhand von Grafiken die Wichtigkeit von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Allgemeinen und für Gesundheit im Speziellen. Denn finanzielle Beiträge im Rahmen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten als unerlässlich, wirksam, günstig und verantwor... more

Download (199)

View PDF (396)

Health for all: transforming economies to deliver what matters: final report of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All: executive summary

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

As of May 2023, COVID-19 may no longer be classified as a public health emergency of international concern, but we must not ignore the deep structural problems it has revealed in our economy.

Download (183)

View PDF (479)

Santé pour tous: transformer les économies pour offrir ce qui compte : rapport final du Conseil de l’OMS sur l’économie de la santé pour tous : résumé d’orientation

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

En mai 2023, la COVID-19 n’est peut-être plus classifiée en tant qu’urgence de santé publique d’envergure internationale mais nous ne devons pas ignorer les profonds problèmes structurels qu’elle a révélé dans notre économie. La santé est un droit humain fondamental et le temps est... more

Download (144)

View PDF (430)

Salud para todos: transformando la economía hacia lo que importa: informe final del Consejo de la OMS sobre la Economía de la Salud para Todos: resumen ejecutivo

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

Aunque en mayo de 2023 la pandemia de COVID-19 ya no se consideraba una emergencia de salud pública de alcance internacional, no debemos pasar por alto los profundos problemas estructurales que ha puesto de manifiesto en nuestra economía. La salud es un derecho humano fundamental, y actualmente es... more

External Link

External Link (311)

Financialisation: a 21st century commercial determinant of health equity

Friel S., Schram A., Frank N., et al. Lancet Public Health (2024) CC

In 21st century capitalism, financial markets reign supreme. The elevation of investing, trading, and speculating as a way of making profit has shifted economic power towards institutional investors and enhanced the power of financial capital. Financialisation has introduced uncertainty in the commi... more

Download (166)

View PDF (208)

The Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP)

Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development of the Government of Malawi, with support from UNICEF Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development of the Government of Malawi, with support from UNICEF (2022) CC2

The Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP)—locally known in Chichewa as Mtukula Pakhomo—is a non-conditional critical safety net for the most vulnerable, ultra-poor Malawians. By providing monthly cash transfers to over 1.3 million people annually, this programme helps ultra-poor families to meet... more

Download (142)

View PDF (238)

The investment case for social protection in Malawi

Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development; Unicef (2022) C_UNICEF

There has been a rapid expansion of cash-based, social protection programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in recent years as Governments increasingly realise the enormous benefits cash transfers offer (World Bank, 2018). In fact, as an investment in human capital and inclusive economic development, ... more