In concluding, the presenters stated that health MDGs
were ambitious and even in a conservative scenario
would be challenging to implement without injection of
new substantive finances. Sub-Saharan Africa countries
require increased and better allocated domestic and
external funding for strengthening their national health
systems in order to achieve the MDGs. Since most of
the resources are to come from country contributions,
there is need for domestic advocacy to raise attention
among national budgeting processes and to channel private household spending through risk pooling and sharing mechanisms such as social health insurance and taxfunded services. External aid is catalytic and needs to
focus on results and efficiency gains.