We are in need of a social security fund on a global scale. That is what scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM) argue in a Viewpoint in the leading medical journal The Lancet. Such a ‘Global Fund for Health’ would make the use of international donor money a lot more transparent and efficient. Today, 44% of international health aid money cannot be traced in the budgets of the receiving countries. This doesn’t necessarily mean it has disappeared in somebody’s pockets, but it is unclear when nor on what it has been spent…

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Why We Need A World Social Health Insurance

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