Supporting countries' health strategies more efficiently
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Overview
Beyond significant change, in under-five mortality for instance, much progress remains to be made in achieving the Health MDGs. Although health aid has increased, it remains below what is estimated necessary by the high-level Task Force on Innovative Financing for Health Systems. While health aid is only one factor in improving health outcomes, enhancing health aid effectiveness is imperative: more needs to be done to align aid with country priorities, to provide more predictable aid, to support sustainable country systems, and to simplify a too complex international health aid landscape.
This report is part of a series, The World Health Report 2010 Background Papers, which were written to inform the process of developing the key messages of the World Health Report 2010: Health systems financing: The path to universal coverage.