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Article: Reports from World Health Organization add new data to research in life sciences.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- December 16, 2008
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A report, 'Are current debt relief initiatives an option for scaling up health financing in beneficiary countries,' is newly published data in Bulletin of the World Health Organization. According to recent research from Geneva, Switzerland, "One central goal of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and the more recent Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) is to free up additional resources for public spending on poverty reduction. The health sector was expected to benefit from a considerable share of these funds."
"The volume of released resources is important enough in certain countries to make a difference for priority programmes ...