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There are still major barriers to achieving the health MDGs. But the burden of ill health is also changing rapidly, and non-communicable diseases are an increasing threat to the majority of the world’s population. International funding for health research is growing. DFID will work with developing countries and other funders to achieve faster results. DFID research will focus on three inter-dependent priorities:

• operational research to make health programmes more effective;
• research on health systems and
• developing drugs and vaccines for HIV and AIDS, TB and malaria and other diseases that most affect poor people.

In future, DFID will use knowledge of health systems to make sure that more poor people have more opportunities to use both new and existing medicines and health technologies. A Working Paper on Better Health provides more details of the planned work on health, and the consultation process which helped to inform DFID's approach to health.

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To read the Research Strategy, view the Output Record on R4D, or download the Low Resolution Version or the High Resolution Version.

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