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Health Sector Development Assistance

After a decade or more of stagnation, development assistance for health has been achieved by the entry of major funders such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the global health initiatives ranging from the large Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to smaller initiatives such as the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) and the Health Metrics Network (HMN).

Commitments from all external sources, including foundations, rose from an annual average of US$6.7 billion in 1997-99 to about US$9.3 billion in 2002. More than 75 such funds work in the health field, the majority being in public-private partnerships that work in areas of research and development, technical assistance and advocacy. This upward trend has been driven by donors' increasing attention to the challenges presented by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), strong global mobilisation to confront the AIDS pandemic and donors' expanding interest in research and development (R&D) in relation to new health technologies to address the major diseases prevalent in poor countries.

Visit the links below for information and resources specific to health-related aid and development assistance and initiatives, including policy documents, research papers, websites and other resources.