Recommended reading

Global Health Initiatives and national level health programs: assuring compatibility and mutual re-enforcement

( B.G. Forsberg / Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO , 2001)

In the past recent years, a number of Global Health Initiatives (GHI) have been initiated in view of improving disease control, notably for the poor, such as Roll-back Malaria (RBM) and Stop TB. The m...

Impact on child mortality of removing user fees: simulation model

( C. James; S.S. Morris; R. Keith; A. Taylor / British Medical Journal , 2005)

This paper, published in the British Medical Journal, estimates how many child lives would be saved if user fees for health care were removed in twenty African countries, using evidence from South Afr...

User fees: the right to education and health denied

( P. Watt; R. Rowden / Global Campaign for Education , 2002)

This policy brief, prepared by the Coalition for Health and Education Rights for the UN Special Session on Children in 2002, argues that user fees continue to deny children’s rights to basic education...

High level forum on the health MDGs

( World Health Organization , 2004)

This document summarises the discussion and main action points of the High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), convened by the World Bank and the World Health Organization (...