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Blog Post
July 18, 2012
In this austere budget climate, generating “value for money” (VFM) is a top concern for global health funding agencies and their donors, who want the biggest bang for their buck in terms of lives saved and diseases controlled. To that end, CGD has convened a working group to help shape the VFM agend...
Jul
22
2012
9:00—11:00 AM
June 25, 2012
The Center for Global Development is hosting a satellite session at the XIX International AIDS Conference entitled "Using Global Payers to Improve Efficiency in Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS." This panel will evaluate institutional perspectives on policies to improve efficiency for major glo...
Jun
4
2012
12:00—1:30 PM
May 23, 2012
The results of the 2010 Afghanistan Mortality Survey were hailed as showing dramatic declines in child and maternal mortality when they first became available last year. Afghan surveyors in all 34 provinces brought back data suggesting that life expectancy at birth is now 62 years. Child mortality ...
Blog Post
May 10, 2012
Recently, the American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene published a paper by Shepard et al. evaluating the impact of HIV/AIDS funding on Rwanda’s health system. The headline of the press release was catchy and assertive: “Six-year Study in Rwanda Finds Influx of HIV/AIDS Funding Does Not Under...
Blog Post
April 24, 2012
Navigating the global health funding landscape can be confusing even for global health veterans; there are scores of donors and multilateral funding mechanisms, each with its own particular structure, personality, and philosophy. For the uninitiated, PEPFAR, GAVI, PMI, WHO, the Global Fund, UNITAID,...