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WASHINGTON (AP) - It will take a huge infusion of development aid — as much as $70 billion annually — to improve the health of the world's poor by 2015, the World Bank says.
Countries need the money to meet such health goals as fighting the spread of HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases, lowering child death rates and cutting mortality rates for mothers.
"Increased assistance on the order of $25 billion-$70 billion a year will be needed to achieve the millennium development goals for health," the World Bank said Thursday in a 300-plus page report that examines health care financing worldwide.
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