Last Friday, The Hill’s Congress Blog highlighted the innovative
ways governments, NGO’s and the private sector are using to aid
for global health. Programs like the Global Alliance for
Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and The Global Fund to fight
AIDS, TB and Malaria are not only ensuring that health
interventions are getting to the people that need them most,
they are helping to promote market growth and drive down prices.
Here’s an excerpt on public-private partnerships from the blog:
“Millions of lives are saved today in developing countries
because of bold, innovative financing arrangements over last 10
years. These financing mechanisms are good examples of private
sector partnership with public sector for common good. These
financing initiatives have pooled large public sector funding
with private sector resources, thus allowing tax payers funds to
have much larger impact than would otherwise be possible. Some
of the examples are given below.” USAID’s Neglected Tropical
Disease (NTD) Program is one such