The British medical journal The Lancet's most recent issue features several articles of analysis of global health initiatives. This editorial (you have to register for the site to read it) serves as an interesting quick read of the broad trends discussed in this issue.
The editorial discusses the rising importance of nongovernmental, non-UN actors in global public health, such as the Gates Foundation or the World Bank. It points out this has its advantages, like more money going in to global public health, as well as its disadvantages, like a decreasing sense of financial/administrative ownership of the the health care system in the national governments of some of the countries receiving the most aid.
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