The Lancet
Oct 09, 2010  Volume 376  Number 9748  Pages 1195 – 1272
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Global health governance—the response to infectious diseases
Rose Gana Fomban Leke

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The burden of disease that affects the developing world has grown from a high prevalence of communicable infectious diseases1 to new additions of emerging infections plus an increasing problem of non-communicable diseases.2,3 Most infectious diseases are largely specific to the world’s poorest regions, and sub-Saharan Africa bears a great burden of these diseases.4 Bilateral and multilateral institutions, followed by organisations and many new initiatives including advocates for health, make up the multiple actors that are responding to the increasing threats of such a crisis in infectious disease.