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Tracing the evolution of health public-private partnerships (PPP) the paper argues that the partnership
label covers a variety of only marginally related arrangements. While the UK health PPPs are relatively
well-defined and based on a consistent if still disputed paradigm, elsewhere partnerships include
highly diverse arrangements - with the so-called global PPPs having become important actors in
international health policy and health financing in low-income countries.
The global PPPs include members in which the private sector plays a significant role. However, the
general situation is that governments and charitable foundations provide the bulk of the funding and
that a large share of the research is carried out by academic institutions rather than by the private,
corporate sector.
The case is made for developing and using a standard protocol for future evaluations of global PPPs
and for strengthening knowledge management regarding domestic, low-income country health PPPs in
the shape of an international health PPP advisory service under the auspices of one of the multilateral
institutions engaged in the issue. |
