Global Health Funding Becoming Scarce: Study
by The Daily Eye Team April 18 2016, 11:07 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secsPeople wasting away from AIDS or succumbing to malaria may become an increasingly common sight within the next 25 years, as funding for universal health care shrivels up.
Health economists warn that local and international aid is failing to keep up with global targets laid out in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.The impact could be felt most in areas of sub-Saharan Africa with the greatest disease burden, but the looming health care crisis could affect 35 low- and moderate-income countries. Those countries could potentially fall short of a projected health care spending target of $86 U.S. dollars per person by 2040.