According to another report of the World Bank, health spending relative to GNI per capital and as a revenue share of GDP in PNG is low. Government spending as a share of total health expenditure is, however, high and the financing system is dependent on a number of complex interactions between a number of agencies, both at the national and subnational level. The current system of health financing has not delivered improved health outcomes; in fact health outcomes in PNG have been stagnant in recent decades. PNG is not on track to meet any of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Papua New Guinea is not alone rather communities facing inequities and development injustices around the world - even in rich nations - can relate strongly with those in PNG. The more one learns of the TB in Papua New Guinea, deeper becomes the conviction that fight against TB cannot succeed if we work in 'silos' but rather an integrated development approach is the way forward! Integrated development was never so central ever before in global development agenda than it is in the currently negotiated sustainable development goals for post 2015. Let's hope countries of the world adopt a development model that delivers development justice equitably to the most under-served communities.
Bobby Ramakant, Citizen News Service -- CNS
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