Global initiatives
PPPs include several major global initiatives for communicable diseases, such as the new Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. The Fund was established in 2002, and has committed US$3 billion in 128 countries for effective programmes that are developed and managed at country level. GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, is making a critical contribution – resources delivered to countries by end 2004 amounted to $447 million, of which $299 million were for vaccines, US$92 million for strengthening immunisation services, and US$56 million for injection safety.
Other public-private partnerships focus on polio, river blindness, trachoma, resistant malaria and TB, and AIDS. Challenges to the success of the global initiatives include the need to integrate additional funds with national plans to strengthen health systems and services for the poor. There are valuable lessons from the programmes to eradicate polio and smallpox.
- Health workforce issues and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: an analytical review
- This article, from Human Resources for Health, explores how the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) addresses the challenges of a health workforce bottleneck to the successful implementation of priority disease programmes.
Recommended readings
- False hope or new start?: the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria
- ( Oxfam , 2002)
- The Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria was set up in the context of high and increasing infection rates and what this Oxfam policy paper sees as a lack of response from governments. The hea...
- Evaluation of GAVI immunization services support funding
- ( G. Chee; R. Fields; N. His; W. Schott / Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization , 2004)
- This document presents the findings from an evaluation of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Immunization Services Support (ISS) funding. The main areas of evaluation include: th...
- New products into old systems: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) from a country perspective
- ( M. Starling; R. Brugha; G. Walt; A. Heaton; R. Keith / Save the Children Fund , 2002)
- The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) aims to expand the use of under-utilised vaccines in seventy-four developing countries whilst supporting the development of other vaccines, but...
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- Spending on HIV/AIDS should be redistributed to other public health issues
- ( Daniel Halperin / The New York Times , 2008)
- This article from the New York Times, calls into question the international community’s focus on HIV/AIDS at the expense of other preventable diseases. In 2007 the United States spent almost US$...
- What are the biggest health challenges and are donors doing enough?: countries have their say
- ( M. Brodie;A. Kohut;E. Hamel / Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation , 2007)
- This survey, conducted jointly by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Global Attitudes Project, asked people in 47 countries around the world how they perceived and prioritised health challenges,...
