Background Since the advent of democracy, the South African government has been putting
charters, policies, strategies and plans in place in an effort to strengthen public health …

Forty eight of the African continent's 54 sovereign states are located in the Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) region, with the government of each defining and shaping its own health …

Executive summary Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development
Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a …

This document is the result of collaborative work led by WHO and UNICEF. The work was in
response to a request from the Minister of Health of Kazakhstan, Dr Yelzhan Birtanov, to the …

Background This is the fourth of our 11-paper supplement on “Community Health Workers at
the Dawn of New Era”. Here, we first make the case for investing in health programmes …

National health systems need strengthening if they are to meet the growing challenge of
chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries. By application of an accepted …

Since 2000, the emergence of several large disease-specific global health initiatives (GHIs)
has changed the way in which international donors provide assistance for public health …

Small states are crucial actors in world politics. They attract outsized attention from great
powers, populate international organizations, and shape international norms. Despite that …

After a period of proliferation of disease-specific initiatives, over the past decade and
especially since 2005 many organizations involved in global health have come to direct …

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 …