Kaiser Family Foundation

Donor Funding for Health in Low-& Middle-Income Countries, 2002–2010

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Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation

While donor funding for health in low and middle-income countries rose significantly in the last decade, the era of rapid growth has come to an end. Health increased as a share of Official Development Assistance (ODA) during the early part of the past decade, largely spurred on by the creation of several new funding initiatives and mechanisms such as The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). However, this share has remained essentially flat in recent years, with year-to-year increases in donor funding for health peaking in 2007, and declining each year since.

Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: International Assistance from Donor Governments in 2011

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UNAIDS

UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation have been tracking donor government assistance for AIDS in low- and middle- income countries since 2002. This latest report provides data from governments for 2011, the most recent year with comparable data available across donors. As it shows, international assistance rose sharply from 2002 through 2008, the period just before the onset of the economic crisis. It then began to flatten and, last year, for the first time, disbursements declined. The current report finds that although funding has gone back up, it remains at 2008 levels. If such trends continue, reaching the UN Political Declaration investment target of $22-24 billion needed by 2015 could be at risk.

HST Update #1

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HST Update
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Health Systems Trust

The first of HST's monthly HST Update Newletter published in November 1994. In this issue is month we publish in full an overview of health sector developments prepared for senior journalists and editors attending a seminar on "The Role of the Media in Health Sector Reform", jointly organised by the Health Systems Trust and the Henry ]. Kaiser Family Foundation

Training Clinic Sisters - Lessons learnt based on experience of the National STI Initiative

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Health Systems Trust
The National STI Initiative is a collaborative project between the Reproductive Health Research Unit (RHRU), the Health Systems Trust (HST), the National Department of Health and Provincial Departments of Health in four provinces. The Initiative is funded by the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation. It was set up in 1999 to develop model district-based STI control programmes in response to some of the recommendations from the National HIV/AIDS Review and a national consultation meeting on strengthening STI control, both of which took place in 1997. Initially four health districts were selected as intervention sites for the Initiative: Kopano (Free State), IPU (KwaZuluNatal), Tonga (Mpumulanga) and Hillbrow (Gauteng).

The Second Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Health Care in South Africa

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Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation
The 2nd Annual Kaiser Family Foundation National Household Survey of approximately 4,000 South African households measures changes since the first survey (in 1998) in key demographics, public health, and health status indicators. The survey also establishes data on access to health care and factors affecting access, such as the cost of transport, waiting time, etc., as well as patient satisfaction with the quality of care.

Health and the Media

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HST Update
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Health Systems Trust
When the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Systems Trust brought together a group of senior journalists, politicians and foreign ambassadors to discuss the media and the marginalised the illustration of life in rural South Africa came across more vividly than was intended. Even with its fleet of chartered planes and 4X4 vehicles, the tour could not reach its destination of Mount Frere in the former Transkei.