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GI-ESCR and Partners Call on Development Finance Institutions to Stop Funding For-Profit Private Halthcare Providers

GI-ESCR and Partners Call on Development Finance Institutions to Stop Funding For-Profit Private Halthcare Providers

Together with partners, GI-ESCR contributed to an open statement signed by more than 70 organisations and experts worldwide calling on Development Finance Institutions to stop funding private for-profit healthcare provide

As indicated in the statement, mounting evidence shows that this funding is going to expensive, out-of-reach private hospitals and clinics in low- and middle-income countries that are widening healthcare inequalities, exacerbating poverty and gender-based discrimination and violating human rights. Far from advancing progress towards Universal Health Coverage as governments have committed, this form of development finance is undermining it.

 

This is the full statement:

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Through the statement, GI-ESCR rejects approaches that put profit before patients and wealth before people’s health. Together with partners, we are calling for:

  • An end to new funding from development finance institutions (DFIs) to for-profit commercial private healthcare, including funding channelled via commercial intermediaries such as private equity funds;
  • An independent and comprehensive evaluation into active and historic DFIs healthcare investments with emphasis on impacts on healthcare inequality, impoverishment, gender, and patient and worker rights;
  • Action to remedy any harm resulting from these investments;
  • A redirection of government efforts to increase funding for free, inclusive and equitable universal publicly delivered and financed healthcare.

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