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Historical Background

The last decade has seen remarkable growth in the international architecture of development assistance for health. Today there are a multitude of new multilaterals, initiatives, foundations and civil society organizations present in addition to increased bilateral aid for combating priority diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, and some vaccine-preventable diseases.

In this increasingly complex and international political environment there is a greater push for health systems strengthening in countries and for better governance architectures in global health in order to improve health outcomes.

The International Health partnership and related initiatives (IHP+) builds on the existing global framework of development assistance that has emerged over the past decade, which commonly calls for the need to rationalise the health architecture and change the way donors work together with partner countries through coordinated efforts of national governments, international agencies, bilaterals, regional governing bodies, civil society, foundations, and the private sector, as well as the need to strengthen in-country health system services. In line with the Paris Declaration, the IHP+ aims to scale-up coverage and use of health services in order to deliver improved health outcomes against the health-related MDGs and universal access commitments.

A timeline of the key agreements, events and global health funding sources that have influenced the international health architecture and the global framework for development assistance of today are shown below. Please the click links provided for more information.

Time line of Key Agreements, Events, and Global Health Funding Sources Since 2000: