The GAVI Alliance and the ‘Gates approach’ to Health System Strengthening


 
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English

Author:

Storeng KT

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Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice

Volume:

2014

Description:

Lauded for getting specific health issues onto national and international agendas and for their potential to improve value for money and outcomes, public-private global health initiatives (GHIs) have come to dominate global health governance. Yet, they have also been criticised for their negative impact on country health systems. In response, disease-specific GHIs have, somewhat paradoxically, appropriated the aim of health system strengthening (HSS). This article critically analyses this development through an ethnographic case study of the GAVI Alliance, which funds vaccines in poor countries. [from abstract]

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