The first decade of the new millennium has seen a rapid and remarkable change in the
global development assistance architecture with the establishment of new aid mechanisms …

Jan De Maeseneer et al. 796 alumni from a medical school in Uganda found an influence of
the PEPFAR projects on career choices of health professionals, with almost half working for …

Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) are a major public health issue globally. This article
identifies two priorities to support public health services in tackling NCDs. The first priority is …

Effective public health interventions can save hundreds of millions of lives in developing
countries, as well as create broad social and economic benefits. Unfortunately, public health …

Abstract The Disease Control Priorities (DCP) project has substantially influenced national
and global health priorities since 1993. DCP's basic framework involves identification of …

The term 'scaling up'is now widely used in the international health literature, though it lacks
an agreed definition. We review what is meant by scaling up in the context of changes in …

Since the early 1990s, the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to
global health has gained increased recognition. This report contains an agenda for action in …

Health systems have several key objectives; the most fundamental is to improve the health
of the population. In addition, they are concerned with the distribution of health in the …

Abstract The World Health Organization's (WHO's) World Health Report 2010," Health
systems financing, the path to universal coverage," promoted universal health coverage …

Over the last few years major international agencies (particularly the World Health
Organisation and the World Bank) have increasingly recognised that investing in health is …