Gorik Ooms,Institute of Tropical Medicine,
Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium
David Stuckler, Oxford University, Department of Sociology,
Oxford, UK - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
Department of Public Health and Policy
Sanjay Basu, University of California San Francisco,
Department of Medicine, and San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco CA
Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London, United Kingdom
Globalization and Health 2010, 6:17 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-6-17
“…….Many of the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved in
the world’s poorest countries, yet only five years remain until the target date.
The financing of these Goals is not merely insufficient; current evidence
indicates that the temporary nature of the financing, as well as challenges to
coordinating its delivery and directing it to the most needy recipients, hinder
achievement of the Goals in countries that may benefit most.
Traditional approaches to providing development assistance for health have
not been able to address both prevalent and emergent public health challenges
captured in the Goals; these challenges demand sustained forms of financial
redistribution through a coordinated mechanism.
A global social health protection fund is proposed to address recurring failures
in the modern aid distribution mechanism. Such a Fund could use established
and effective strategies for aid delivery to mitigate many financial problems
currently undermining the Millennium Development Goals initiative….”
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