[EQ] Financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond: sustaining the Big Push

Financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond:
sustaining the ‘Big Push’

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
           

Available online at: http://bit.ly/9816Vo

 

“…….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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