Portfolio Review of World Bank Lending for Communicable Disease Control
Communicable diseases are a major burden of disease among the poor, and communicable disease control is central to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000. Over the years communicable disease contro...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/503771468160764741/Portfolio-review-of-World-Bank-lending-for-communicable-disease-control http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27861 |
| Summary: | Communicable diseases are a major burden
of disease among the poor, and communicable disease control
is central to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
(MDG) adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000. Over the
years communicable disease control has featured prominently
in several strategic Bank documents. In the 1997 Health,
Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Sector Strategy communicable
disease control was one of the essential HNP priorities. The
2007 HNP sector strategy made extensive reference to the
need for synergy between communicable disease control
(especially disease-specific projects) and health system
strengthening. Communicable diseases also feature as one of
four priority areas in the global public good strategic
theme in the Bank's six strategic themes identified in
2007. This paper is organized into five chapters. The
following chapter describes the sample of projects covered
in this review and the methodology. The results of the
review of approved and closed projects follow in the third
and forth chapters, respectively, and the last chapter
summarizes the conclusions. |
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