Originaltext - Englisch - With 2.6 billion people and less than 5% of the...

With 2.6 billion people and less than 5% of the world’s health expenditure, countries in this group suffer from an absolute under-funding of their health sector, along with a disproportion ally high disea seburden. The persistence of high levels of maternal mortality in these countries - they claim close to 90% of all maternal deaths - is perhaps the clearest indication of the consequences of the under-funding of health on the performance of their health systems.