Healthcare International health care funding programs are collaborative, multinational, cross-disciplinary endeavors with a broad philanthropic outlook and scope. There are dozens of different international health care funding programs, all of which depend at least in part on private funding sources due to the prevalence of the neoliberal economic, political, and social justice model (Pfeiffer, 2003). Two of the most significant international health care funding programs include the Global Fund, which focuses on AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria to provide funding, consultation, leadership, research, coordination, and policy standardization; and the Commonwealth Fund, which is a fully private foundation dedicated to equitable access to healthcare resources. Both the Global Fund and the Commonwealth Fund perform similar functions as international health care funding programs. They provide services, support, human resources, and infrastructural support to primary health care delivery in the developing world but also in any region of need. Although utilization of the Global Fund and the Commonwealth Fund will be different, these two organizations work with governments and the private sector, to coordinate health care services and resource allocation.

Utilization of the Commonwealth Fund and the Global Fund highlight the importance of health information technology. Interestingly, a comparison of the Commonwealth Fund and the Global Fund also reveals some of the differences between the United States health care...

As Anderson, Frogner, Johns & Reinhardt (2006) point out, the United States lags about a dozen years behind other nations in terms of health information technology. Utilizing the services of the Commonwealth Fund and the Global Fund entails access to medical information technologies, as these organizations help implement medical informatics systems in developing nations. The core difference with regards to the utilization of health information technology between the Commonwealth Fund and the Global Fund is that the latter remains concerned primarily with three disease families afflicting developing nations: AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The use of the Global Fund in these primary health care areas depends on the application of technological resources. The Commonwealth Fund takes a broader scope, but likewise implements medical information technology in the allocation of resources.
The Commonwealth Fund and the Global Fund both coordinate efforts by the public and private sectors. However, the Commonwealth Fund combines bureaucratic and scholarly expertise with local resources, whereas the Global Fund remains dedicated in particular to the development of local human resources in the fight against major epidemics. The difference is that the Global Fund has a clearer focus, and an overarching goal of improving the long-term outlook and health outcomes specifically with regard to AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The Commonwealth Fund stresses efficiency regardless of…