Health financing reforms are crucial for improving efficiency, transparency, and service delivery in low- and middle-income countries, where health systems often operate under tight resource constraints. In Tanzania, the Direct Health Facility Financing (DHFF)...
Gavi and the Asian Development Bank sign an agreement to expand health financing, support vaccine access, and strengthen health systems across 32 countries in Asia and the Pacific.Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a major new...
At their 2025 meeting in Geneva, Commonwealth health ministers committed to long-term, equitable health financing, with a strong focus on innovation, primary care and support for vulnerable nations.At the 37th Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting in Geneva, leaders...
As noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) place increasing strain on health systems in low- and middle-income countries, the need for sustainable financing solutions is more urgent than ever. With development assistance stagnating and domestic budgets stretched thin,...
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the devastating consequences of chronic underinvestment in pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). Despite the staggering toll—over 28 million excess deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses—the global...
In a Comment published in The Lancet, Kumanan Rasanathan, Maylene M Beltran, Alberta A Biritwum-Nyarko, Mark S Blechner, Mark Dybul, Hajime Inoue, and colleagues raise the alarm on the steep decline in development assistance for health and the deepening crisis it has...
To tackle the global rise in non-communicable diseases, researchers urge the G20 to support stronger health taxes on harmful products like sugary drinks, tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed foods.By 2030, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer,...
A report by the EU Expert Advisory Group, convened by the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR), outlines the case for greater strategic investment in health across the European Union. Titled Investing in health for a competitive, secure,...
The World Health Assembly has approved a Nigeria-led resolution urging stronger domestic health financing and reduced out-of-pocket costs to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage.The 78th World Health Assembly (WHA) has adopted a landmark resolution...
A chapter in Global Health Watch 7, titled “Financing Pandemic Recovery, Prevention, Preparedness and Response”, critically examines current global health financing structures through the lens of pandemic cycles. Authored by the People’s Health Movement and Daraja...
This OECD study examines the growing role of financial actors—such as private equity, pension funds, and insurers—in outpatient health care across OECD countries. Drawing on responses from health ministries and system-level data, it highlights increasing concerns...
The policy brief “Tax Systems and Policy: Crucial for Good Health and Good Governance”, published by the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in May 2025, reframes taxation as a central pillar of equitable and sustainable...
A new article in Think Global Health calls for a gender levy on tobacco and alcohol taxes to fund gender-smart health, combat NCDs, and address the industry's manipulation of gender norms.A recent article in Think Global Health by Kent Buse, Jeni Klugman, and Elhadj...
Global health leaders at WHA78 call for urgent country-led action to address health financing gaps and strengthen domestic data systems amid declining external support.At the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly on 21 May 2025, ministers from several countries...
SDG indicator 3.8.2 has been revised to better capture financial hardship from health costs, now measuring out-of-pocket spending over 40% of discretionary income to reflect poverty impact. SDG indicator 3.8.2 is designed to measure financial protection in health—an...
