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Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment Launches New Website

6 July, 2010

Hundreds of millions of people are affected by “diseases of the poor”, such as African sleeping sickness, Leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease, as well as better known killers like Malaria and Tuberculosis. Yet there are far too few drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tests to address these health challenges.

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
Amrita Palriwala
Connected Expert(s): 
Kimberly Manno Reott
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht

Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) launches interactive web platform

30 June, 2010

As a publicly accessible global knowledge platform consisting of a network of partners that collect, analyze, and disseminate information about Health Market Innovations in developing countries, the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) website facilitates the exchange of knowledge and the creation of strategic linkages among key stakeholders.

Connected Expert(s): 
Alice Garabrant
Connected Expert(s): 
Donika Dimovska
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Maria Belenky

Innovative Financing for Education

In this paper, R4D Managing Director Nicholas Burnett and Oxford University Visiting Research Fellow Desmond Bermingham draw upon their extensive knowledge of education and on R4D’s work on innovative finance in other areas to examine how innovative financing can be applied to mobilize funds for education.

The education sector has yet to harness the benefits of innovative financing mechanisms for development, as has been the case in other sectors like health.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
R4D Author(s): 
Nicholas Burnett
Author(s): 
Desmond Bermingham

R4D launches aids2031 synthesis report and convenes global leaders to discuss the future of the AIDS response

14 June, 2010

Key leaders from the Uganda AIDS Commission, the Zambian National AIDS Council, the Global Fund, and the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator came together at the Global Health Council Annual Conference to discuss and debate the future costs and challenges of financing the global response to the AIDS epidemic.

Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
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Costs & Choices: Financing the Long-Term Fight Against AIDS

This book recommends a series of actions that can move the world toward a better future in dealing with AIDS, while using financial resources in a more efficient and affordable manner.

35 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS WORLDWIDE

OVER 2.5 MILLION BECOME INFECTED EVERY YEAR

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Main Contact: 
Robert Hecht
R4D Author(s): 
Carleigh Krubiner
R4D Author(s): 
David de Ferranti
R4D Author(s): 
Farzana Muhib
R4D Author(s): 
Kira Thorien
R4D Author(s): 
Richard Skolnik
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
R4D Author(s): 
William McGreevey
Funder(s): 
UNAIDS

Strategies for Financing Education: A global view

This article was written for the International Working Group on Education and discusses the importance of innovative financing for education, particularly in low-income countries.

The global economic recession has tightened budgets, straining the willingness of donors to continue financing educational programs in low and middle income countries. In “Strategies for Financing of education: a global view,” Managing Director Nicholas Burnett highlights the need for further support for and research on education in low-income countries.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2010
Main Contact: 
Nicholas Burnett
R4D Author(s): 
Nicholas Burnett
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Managing Director Nicholas Burnett keynotes education donors meeting

7 June, 2010

Nicholas Burnett delivered the keynote presentation to the International Working Group on Education, a biennial assembly of the major public and private donors to education, in Stockholm on June 7.

The theme of this year's meeting was "Financing education: Redesigning national strategies and the global aid architecture". Burnett argued that parents and developing country governments are doing their best but that international donors lag behind. He called for attention to seven topics:

Connected Expert(s): 
Nicholas Burnett

R4D to host special session with global leaders on AIDS costs and policy choices

9 June, 2010

How much will the fight against AIDS cost in the coming years, who will pay for it in the midst of global economic crisis and competing spending priorities, and how can governments better use their scarce AIDS resources to have the greatest impact on the epidemic?

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
Carleigh Krubiner
Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht

aids2031 projections featured in New York Times articles on AIDS spending

10 May, 2010

On Monday, the New York Times featured findings from the aids2031 Costs and Financing Project, directed by R4D, in a pair of front page articles examining the global response to HIV/AIDS.

Connected Expert(s): 
Carleigh Krubiner
Connected Expert(s): 
Kira Thorien
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
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