A radical proposal for development assistance for health

According to Adeyi, ending this invisible war requires addressing two fundamental problems: the foreign aid industrial complex and the self-imposed neo-dependency of many LMICs. [...]the foreign aid industrial complex refers to the spectacular growth and billions of dollars per year going to for-profit USAID subcontractors and related industries. Adeyi makes the point that when US presidents—from Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump—have been officially documented expressing their racist views, it is not surprising that racism flourishes among their administration officials and flows outward through foreign aid policies. [...]Adeyi is advocating for an end of foreign aid for basic health services by 2030. Angus Deaton, the Nobel Prize winning economist, has argued for many years, including in his book The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, that foreign aid, and DAH, has been undermining good governance and state building in many LMICs. Unsurprisingly, the foreign aid and global health industrial complexes have been unmoved by such analyses.