Obligations of low income countries in ensuring equity in global health financing

BMC Medical Ethics
John Barugahare, Reidar K Lie

Abstract

Despite common recognition of joint responsibility for global health by all countries particularly to ensure justice in global health, current discussions of countries' obligations for global health largely ignore obligations of developing countries. This is especially the case with regards to obligations relating to health financing. Bearing in mind that it is not possible to achieve justice in global health without achieving equity in health financing at both domestic and global levels, our aim is to show how fulfilling the obligation we propose will make it easy to achieve equity in health financing at both domestic and international levels. Achieving equity in global health financing is a crucial step towards achieving justice in global health. Our general view is that current discussions on global health equity largely ignore obligations of Low Income Country (LIC) governments and we recommend that these obligations should be mainstreamed in current discussions. While we recognise that various obligations need to be fulfilled in order to ultimately achieve justice in global health, for lack of space we prioritise obligations for health financing. Basing on the evidence that in most LICs health is not given priority in annu...Continue Reading

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Jun 4, 2016·BMC International Health and Human Rights·John Barugahare, Reidar K Lie
May 8, 2021·Frontiers in Public Health·Denis KibiraAukje K Mantel-Teeuwisse

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