Global health funding slows as deadline for MDGs nears

New Delhi: 18th December 2011

Developed countries and funding agencies are putting the brakes on growth in development assistance for health, raising the possibility that developing countries will have an even harder time meeting the Millennium Development Goals deadline — 2015, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Even as aid continued to grow, reaching $27.73 billion in 2011, significant cutbacks in the United States slowed the growth rate in development assistance to 4 per cent between 2010 and 11 — the slowest in a decade.

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