Selected article for: "foreign policy and health development assistance"

Author: Feldbaum, Harley; Lee, Kelley; Michaud, Joshua
Title: Global Health and Foreign Policy
  • Document date: 2010_4_27
  • ID: 1cpvboto_19
    Snippet: Foreign-policy extensions of domestic political priorities have also shaped development assistance for health. Perlman and Roy observed that ''the orientation of [development assistance for health] had been heavily influenced by political changes in the United States and Great Britain'' (7, p. 14) . For example, during the conservative Thatcher (United Kingdom) and Reagan (United States) administrations, funding for family planning and social ser.....
    Document: Foreign-policy extensions of domestic political priorities have also shaped development assistance for health. Perlman and Roy observed that ''the orientation of [development assistance for health] had been heavily influenced by political changes in the United States and Great Britain'' (7, p. 14) . For example, during the conservative Thatcher (United Kingdom) and Reagan (United States) administrations, funding for family planning and social services was cut sharply to reflect these governments' priorities. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the largest bilateral health aid program ever, had origins rooted in US domestic politics, as President George W. Bush proposed the program partly in response to lobbying from his political base (43) .

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