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MAXIMIZING POSITIVE SYNERGIES - World Health Organization

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Annex 01: Data sources for tables<br />

in country case studies<br />

In most instances, the country case studies included in this volume feature standardized<br />

background data tables whose purpose is to provide readers with an overview of key<br />

socioeconomic, demographic and health indicators for the countries where Maximizing Positive<br />

Synergies (MPS) research has been undertaken, along with summary information on the<br />

magnitude and evolution of major GHIs’ investments in these countries. Except where otherwise<br />

noted, the data included in the standardized country tables are drawn from the following sources:<br />

Basic socioeconomic, demographic and health indicators:<br />

Population; geographic size; GDP per capita; Gini index:<br />

<strong>World</strong> Bank. <strong>World</strong> Development Indicators Online. Proprietary online database. For conditions of access,<br />

see: http://go.worldbank.org/6HAYAHG8H0.<br />

Government expenditure on health as percentage of general government expenditure; per capita<br />

government expenditure on health:<br />

WHO. National <strong>Health</strong> Accounts (NHA). Available at: http://www.who.int/nha/country/en/.<br />

Physician density; nursing and midwifery density; maternal mortality ratio; DTP3 coverage:<br />

WHO. WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS). Available at: http://www.who.int/whosis/en/.<br />

Estimated adult HIV prevalence:<br />

UNAIDS. Report on the global AIDS epidemic 2008. Geneva, UNAIDS, 2008.<br />

Estimated antiretroviral therapy coverage:<br />

WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF. Towards universal access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health<br />

sector: Progress report 2008. Geneva, WHO, 2008.<br />

Note: Estimated antiretroviral therapy coverage data for a small number of countries were not included in<br />

the 2008 Towards universal access report. In such instances, coverage estimates have been derived from<br />

HIV/AIDS progress reports submitted by countries to the United Nations General Assembly. Periodic national<br />

progress reports are part of countries’ obligations under the UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS,<br />

signed at the 2001 UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS). Countries’ 2008 UNGASS<br />

progress reports are available at:<br />

http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/CountryProgress/2007CountryProgressAllCountries.a<br />

sp.<br />

Estimated tuberculosis prevalence:<br />

WHO. Global tuberculosis database. Available at:<br />

http://www.who.int/tb/country/global_tb_database/en/index2.html.<br />

Estimated malaria deaths:<br />

WHO. <strong>World</strong> malaria report 2008. Geneva, WHO, 2008.<br />

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