The Lancet  
Dec 08, 2012   Volume 380  Number 9858  p1967 – 2052
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Health Policy
Innovative financing for health: what is truly innovative?
Rifat Atun, Felicia Marie Knaul, Yoko Akachi, Julio Frenk

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Development assistance for health has increased every year between 2000 and 2010, particularly for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, to reach US$26·66 billion in 2010. The continued global economic crisis means that increased external financing from traditional donors is unlikely in the near term. Hence, new funding has to be sought from innovative financing sources to sustain the gains made in global health, to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals, and to address the emerging burden from non-communicable diseases.