As Global Health Funding Surges, Balance of Power Shifts

June 18, 2009, The Seattle Times — Global health funding has quadrupled in less than two decades to almost $22 billion, boosted by U.S. public funding, corporate donations and giving from private foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

But imbalances remain in directing the money to best combat a range of diseases around the world, according to researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

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