Global health funding has increased in recent years. This has been accompanied by a proliferation in the number of global health actors and initiatives. This paper describes the state of global heath finance, taking into account government and private sources of finance, and raises and discusses a n ... umber of policy issues related to global health governance. A schematic describing the different actors and three global health finance functions is used to organize the data presented, most of which are secondary data from the published literature and annual reports of relevant actors. more

An unprecedented amount of money is being pledged and used to fund health research and services throughout the world. Although estimates are diffi cult to obtain, the 2004 estimate for international health funding was about US$14 billion, and is rapidly increasing, largely because of the emergence ... and growth of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the US Government’s AIDS initiative more