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...governments of many sub-Saharan African countries receive aid from other countries and international organizations to supplement their domestic health spending. But according to the study, published in The Lancet earlier this month, the addition of these funds often leads governments to divert the money they planned to dedicate to health to other areas...
...researchers found that for every dollar governments are given, they divert between $0.43 and $1.14 away from their original domestic health budgets...
...contrast, the study also discovered that when funding is sent to non-governmental organizations instead of to the government directly, government health spending tends to increase...
Although the findings raise serious concerns about whether or not health aid may be a zero sum game, Claude Bruderlein, a lecturer on international health at the Harvard School for Public Health, said that the mere dollar amounts do not show the full extent of the benefits of international...
Bruderlein explained that, along with accounting statistics, international health funding carries with it necessary standards of accountability and productivity that may not be coming from the local populations, especially in non-democratic countries...