Household malaria spending, 2000–2016

Investing in malaria prevention, treatment, and elimination

In 2016, a total of $4.3 billion was spent globally on malaria, which includes funding from all sources: donor, government, out-of-pocket, and prepaid private sources. Still, spending fel...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Potential for additional government spending on HIV/AIDS in 137 low-income and middle-income countries: an economic modelling study

Between 2012 and 2016, development assistance for HIV/AIDS decreased by 20.0%; domestic financing is therefore critical to sustaining the response to HIV/AIDS. To understand whether domestic resour...

Malaria eradication within a generation: ambitious, achievable, and necessary

In this report of the Commission, we synthesize existing evidence and new epidemiological and financial analyses to show that malaria eradication by 2050 is a bold but attainable goal, and a necess...