Cross-posted from: Global Health Check <globalhealthcheckblog@gmail.com>
*Private health providers are NOT more efficient, accountable or medically effective *
by Anna Marriott
In 2009 Oxfam published “Blind Optimism: Challenging the Myths about Private Health Care in Poor Countries,” to help redress what we saw as an international health discourse increasingly dominated by unchallenged private sector advocates. Some of those same advocates accused Oxfam of being purposefully selective with the evidence. The health team at Oxfam were therefore ...