Health Sector Spending and Spending on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and Development Assistance for Health: Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goal 3

Health spending on SDG 3 priority areas has increased, but not in all countries, and progress toward meeting the SDG 3 targets has been mixed and has varied by country and by target. The evidence on the scale-up of spending and improvements in health outcomes suggest a nuanced relationship, such that increases in spending do not always results in improvements in outcomes. Although countries will probably need more resources to achieve SDG 3, other constraints in the broader health system such as inefficient allocation of resources across interventions and populations, weak governance systems, human resource shortages, and drug shortages, will also need to be addressed.

Publication Year:

2020

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

IHME
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

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