At Spring Meetings, alarm bells sound over global health finance

“Efficiency,” “alignment,” “sustainability,” “leverage.”

In Washington, D.C., where health and finance ministers, global health leaders, and international funders gathered for the World Bank’s Spring Meetings, these are ways of talking — or not talking — about a growing fear: A large group of countries are facing an alarming health funding landscape.

“We have a problem globally,” health economist David Evans said Thursday at a forum on health financing.

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