A total of 36 parties contested last June's election, but 90% of the expenditure came from Labour and the Tories.
The Abuja declaration came as a solution to this problem by setting targets for African countries; to invest at least 15% of government budget on health and to have less than 20% of the total health expenditure coming from out-of pocket spending.
Most of the increase in health expenditure came from households and donors.
About 44.9% of total health expenditure came from general government expenditure, the remaining 55.1% coming from private expenditure in the form of household out-of-pocket payments.
About 73.4% of total health expenditure came from general government allocations while the remaining 26.6% was from private sources, of which 53.4% was household out-of-pocket payments.
It is worth mentioning that Greece spends 9.4% of its GDP on health, 59.1% of which is public expenditure coming from general taxation and social insurance contributions [ 29].
The majority of the expenditure came from medication (US$158.47, US$97.15 and US$91.58, respectively), but expenditure from medical visits was also statistically significant for depression and for any mental disorders (US$59.97 and US$32.57, respectively).
Data on health care expenditure came from detailed cost-of-illness studies for the years 1994, 1999, 2003, and 2007 which have been performed by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) [ 19].
In 2010, 80% of the total TB R&D expenditure came from public sector or philanthropic funding [ 18, 19] and many of the Phase II/III clinical trials are being supported by public research institutions, development agencies or product development partnerships, the latter receiving much of their funding from philanthropic organizations [ 19].
