New prescriptions
Chronic diseases and a cash squeeze are prompting donors to rethink spending
IN 2000 policy wonks from governments and aid organisations agreed on what would become the Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious set of development targets for 2015. Surprisingly, the fine words prompted concerted action. From 2001 to 2010 the aid devoted to health care grew by more than 10% a year, compared with 7% a year in the 1990s. Most of the new money went on fighting the scourges on the list: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and maternal and infant mortality.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “New prescriptions”
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