The Lancet
Jul 25, 2015 Volume 386 Number 9991 p311-402
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Editorial
Financing global health: the poverty of nations
The Lancet
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61392-7
Summary
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA), the outcome from the first of three meetings in 2015 intended to set the course for the next 15 years of sustainable development, is remarkable only for its alliteration. The third Financing for Development conference (FFD3), which followed meetings in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002 and Doha, Qatar, in 2008, was an opportunity for the world to restate its vision of a shared, sustainable, prosperous future, and to make plans for achieving it. In this, FFD3 was a resounding disappointment.

Editorial
Ending institutionalisation of children
The Lancet
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61394-0
Summary
Childhood is a time when the seeds of a person’s future health and wellbeing are sown. Ideally, it happens within a family setting that provides individualised care in a loving, safe, enriching, and happy environment. Sadly, more than 8 million vulnerable children worldwide do not have access to such care and grow up in large institutions or orphanages. Such environments share conditions that can be detrimental to children, such as depersonalisation—through lack of personal possessions, care relationships, or symbols of individuality—strict routines, group treatment, and isolation from wider society.

Special Report
The World Bank under Jim Kim
Sam Loewenberg