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Syria Arab Republic: Shelter/NFI Sector Whole of Syria Winter Assistance Update (1 March 2021)

Shelter Cluster, UNHCR (2021) CC

Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995–2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network (2017) CC

An adequate amount of prepaid resources for health is important to ensure access to health services and for the pursuit of universal health coverage. Previous studies on global health financing have described the relationship between economic development and health financing. In this study, we furth ... more

Global child and adolescent mental health: The orphan of development assistance for health

Lu C., Li Z.; Patel V. PLOS Medecine (2018) CC

More than 40% of the world population is 24 years old or younger, the vast majority of whom live in low- and lower middle–income countries. Globally, a quarter of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for mental disorders and substance abuse is borne by this age group and about 75% of mental diso ... more

US$ 2.96 billion needed to provide life-saving assistance to 13.1 million people in Yemen in 2018

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen (2018)

Spending on health and HIV/AIDS: domestic health spending and development assistance in 188 countries, 1995-2015

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network Lancet (2018) CC

Background: Comparable estimates of health spending are crucial for the assessment of health systems and to optimally deploy health resources. The methods used to track health spending continue to evolve, but little is known about the distribution of spending across diseases. We developed improved e ... more

République Centrafricaine / Renforcement des capacités du PNLT-RCA par une assistance technique résidentielle pour la mise en oeuvre de la subvention du Fonds mondial

Initiative 5pour100 (2012) C1

L’objectif général de la mission est de renforcer le programme national de lutte contre la tuberculose à travers une assistance technique d’une durée de 12 mois.

Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: development assistance and domestic spending on health between 1990 and 2026

Global Burden of Disease 2021 Health Financing Collaborator Network The Lancet Glob Health (2023) C2

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in health surveillance systems, disease prevention, and treatment globally. Among the many factors that might have led to these gaps is the issue of the financing of national health systems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), as well ... more

Reproductive health priorities: evidence from a resource tracking analysis of official development assistance in 2009 and 2010

Hsu J.; Berman P.; Mills A. The Lancet (2013) CC

nformation is scarce about the extent to which official development assistance (ODA) is spent on reproductive health to provide childbirth care; support family planning; address sexual health; and prevent, treat, and care for sexually transmitted in ... more

US$ 2.96 billion needed to provide life-saving assistance to 13.1 million people in Yemen in 2018. Arabic Version

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Country Team in Yemen (2018) C1

نداء لتوفير 2.96 مليار دولار لتقديم مساعدات منقذة للأرواح إلى 13.1مليون شخص في اليمن خلال العام 2018

The impact of suspensions and reductions in official development assistance on HIV, hepatitis and STIs

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Strategic information and analytics report No 1, published 17 April 2025. 75 out of 106 surveyed countries reported disruptions in at least one essential health service area.

Health sector spending and spending on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and development assistance for health: progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network Lancet (2020) C1

Background: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 aims to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. While a substantial effort has been made to quantify progress towards SDG3, less research has focused on tracking spending towards this goal. We used spending estimates to ... more

Past, present, and future of global health financing: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 195 countries, 1995–2050

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network The Lancet (2019) CC

Comprehensive and comparable estimates of health spending in each country are a key input for health policy and planning, and are necessary to support the achievement of national and international health goals. Previous studies have tracked past and projected future health spending until 2040 and ... more

Haiti: Guide du Participant formation sur site pour le personnel de santé: Assistance-Conseil sur l’Alimentation du Nourrisson et du Jeune Enfant

USAID, SPRING (2015) C1

Addressing global health challenges requires harmonised and innovative approaches to the development assistance for health

Shi J., Jin Y., Zheng Z. BMJ Global Health (2023) CC

Overall, harmonisation and innovation should be the focus of the future direction of DAH and the creation of a healthy global community. The world needs all hands on deck if it were to move towards achieving the SDGs, addressing global health inequalities and improving the welfare of the global ... more

From lemming to leader: Moving beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to bring health financing assistance into the 21st century

Nassiri-Ansari's T., Schwalbe N., Lehtimaki S. PLOS Global Public Health (2024) CC

Nearly 90 years after Simon Kuznets first introduced Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the limited purpose of measuring economic growth (by measuring the monetary value of all local goods and services within a given period of time), calls continue to mount for decision-makers to stop using GDP and it ... more

Targeting and prioritization of impoverished and food-insecure populations affected by COVID-19 | Safeguarding and scaling up assistance for people most at risk

WFP (2020) CC

The outbreak of COVID-19 comes with unpredictable primary and secondary impacts on vulnerable and food-insecure populations across the world. Mortality and morbidity appear to be most acute for elderly people, and those with underlying health conditions. At the same time, the widely anti ... more