Reference:
“Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005-2007″ (Daniel Esser and Kara Keating Bench) - published in World Development #39, 2011, summarized in Stanford Social Innovation Review Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2012
Key Ideas:
- There is no question that private foundations, especially large ones like Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are contributing huge sums to fight good causes
- But, Esser and Bench ask, why do diseases like HIV command so much interest and money by these foundations, although such diseases rarely register as a top national health priority for the affected countries? As an example, HIV/AIDS only contributes to 3% of total disease burden in Asia but was second most highly funded category
