Three multilateral development banks and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the launch of an investment platform on Thursday aimed at supporting low and middle-income countries to build their primary healthcare (PHC) services via grants and concessional loans.
PHC is widely recognised as the most effective way to improve health and well-being, and the recent World Health Assembly recognised it as the driver of universal health coverage, one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
https://The Health Impact Investment Platform (HIIP), launched during the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, will make an initial €1.5 billion available to LICs and LMICs in concessional loans and grants to expand the reach and scope of their PHC services.