Privatisation in health systems in developing countries: what's in a name?

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* Ironically, the more comprehensive Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994 was also meant to reach fruition in 2015, and certainly will not, yet this is getting almost no press. The MDG5 indicator “universal access to reproductive health” is spelled out in the ICPD programme, but is rarely remembered as the source of what is supposed to be achieved.

* For example, in the 10 years since heads of state of African Union countries met in Abuja, Nigeria, and pledged to set a target of allocating “at least 15%” of their annual budget to improve the health sector, only Rwanda and South Africa have reached that objective, according to WHO.³