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    Why the Rockefeller Foundation prioritizes health financing

    Since 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation has focused its efforts more on building health systems than on specific health MDG targets. Would the current response to Ebola in West Africa have benefited if other donors had done the same?

    By Carlos Santamaria // 26 August 2014

    As we get closer to the 2015 deadline to meet the Millennium Development Goals, part of the debate on health has focused on donors that allocate most of their funds to certain key issues, rather than strengthening health systems in developing countries.

    While most donors recognize the MDGs have done their part to advance global health, some point out that the U.N.-led global agenda set to expire in less than 500 days also has its downsides.

    One of the latter is the Rockefeller Foundation, which since 2008 has focused on building the resilience of health systems — although most of its efforts have focused on health financing, part of the World Health Organization’s model of breaking down national health systems into six “building blocks”:

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      Carlos is a former associate editor for breaking news in Devex's Manila-based news team. He joined Devex after a decade working for international wire services Reuters, AP, Xinhua, EFE ,and Philippine social news network Rappler in Madrid, Beijing, Manila, New York, and Bangkok. During that time, he also covered natural disasters on the ground in Myanmar and Japan.

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