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Consequently, also financial aid to global health activities has much increased. Much of this goes to programmes on infectious diseases or other traditional health issues—many of them in form of vertical disease specific actions. Very little, i.e. less than 3% of the global development assistance for health, goes to prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).1

This is in sharp contrast to the observations on how global health is rapidly changing. Although many infectious diseases and other traditional health issues, like child and maternal mortality, remain serious problems and should be vigorously addressed, NCDs have started to dominate global public health.2