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September 17, 2024
Half of children in poor countries have lead poisoning which undermines their lifelong health and education. Prevention of lead exposure can be highly cost-effective and yet is grossly underfunded. We propose that the European Commission should pledge to end lead poisoning within the European Union,...
BRIEFS
September 12, 2024
COVID-19 laid bare the shortcomings in health product markets that contributed to inequitable access to medical countermeasures like vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries. A key challenge is that manufacturing for health products is concentrated in a handful of co...
CGD NOTES
September 11, 2024
The Lusaka Agenda envisages fundamental shifts in the role of health aid towards sustainable domestically financed health services, country ownership, and donor alignment with country priorities and systems. In a previous policy paper CGD proposed a New Compact for health aid which is fully aligned ...
Blog Post
September 11, 2024
In an era marked by unprecedented global challenges, from climate change to geopolitical tensions, the landscape of global health financing is at a pivotal juncture. In response to the growing recognition of the need for more equitable and effective global health systems, CGD analysts have proposed ...
CGD NOTES
September 11, 2024
While the New Compact proposal highlights the various challenges with the current global health architecture and outlines an approach to “put aid in its place” by empowering country-led priority-setting, there is nevertheless a place for regional or global institutions to set priorities on regional ...
POLICY PAPERS
September 11, 2024
As Gavi embarks on its next strategic phase, it faces shifting donor priorities, rising costs of new vaccines, incomplete vaccine coverage, and economic constraints in supported countries. Additionally, health ministries face increasing pressures related to universal health coverage, complex disease...
POLICY PAPERS
September 11, 2024
Adopting a "New Compact" approach, where the Ethiopian government finances top-priority health interventions while donor aid extends coverage to additional high-value services, could significantly enhance health outcomes, potentially increasing healthy life years by 15 percent. However, full impleme...
Blog Post
September 11, 2024
Last year, myself and colleagues outlined a proposal for a “New Compact” to reform financing of health services in aid-recipient countries; a response to the extraordinarily complex and, at times, overreaching architecture for health aid. Multilateralism can be a powerful force for positive impact a...
POLICY PAPERS
September 06, 2024
Launched in December 2023, the Lusaka Agenda laid out a set of shifts and actions to strengthen financing for universal health coverage (UHC). A process for establishing mutual accountability for delivery is ongoing, including within the African Union, but metrics for assessing progress have not yet...
Blog Post
September 06, 2024
Financial support for health in low- and middle-income countries has come under renewed criticism in recent years by policymakers and experts, critiquing that it often fragments health systems, undermines national priority-setting, and lacks a clear exit strategy. The most recent effort to address t...