Understanding health spending for SDG 3

Abstract

The present Article and previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network clearly indicate the diminishing importance of development assistance for health (DAH) for financing services at the country level, even for disease areas commonly perceived as highly dependent on DAH 1,3,4 The projections to 2030 indicate that DAH will continue to be important in some low-income countries at the end of the SDG period, but this finding is more a consequence of the lack of growth in domestic spending than an effect of increasing DAH Vlad Sokhin/Panos Pictures In the present Article, the authors also present funding estimates for specifically relevant areas for SDG3—ie, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and universal health coverage 1 Although these estimates might be useful for a global dialogue around how SDGs are prioritised in DAH, the approach is less relevant for increased understanding of, and improved decision making in, the health sector of countries included in the study [ ]the Article does not take a health systems approach to the data