Investing in malaria prevention, treatment, and elimination

Global malaria spending $2 billion short of WHO target, stifling progress toward eliminating disease

A first-of-its-kind study reveals malaria spending in 2016 totaled $4.3 billion globally, far short of the annual funding target of $6.6 billion set by the World Health Organization. An increa...

Increased out-of-pocket spending threatens universal health coverage in ‘missing middle’ countries

One in six countries is expected to have substantially high out-of-pocket spending as a proportion of total health expenditures by 2050, according to a new scientific study. As low-income coun...

Tracking spending on malaria by source in 106 countries, 2000–16: an economic modelling study

Sustaining achievements in malaria control and making progress toward malaria elimination requires coordinated funding. We estimated domestic malaria spending by source in 106 countries that were m...

Past, present, and future of global health financing: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 195 countries, 1995–2050

We estimated domestic health spending for 195 countries and territories from 1995 to 2016, split into three categories – government, out-of-pocket, and prepaid private health spending –&nb...

Financing Global Health 2018: Countries and Programs in Transition

This 10th edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report provides the most up-to-date estimates of development assistance for health, domestic ...

Household malaria spending, 2000–2016

An animation to accompany the study titled, "Tracking spending on malaria by source in 106 countries, 2000–16: an economic modelling study."