Table 1. Committed debt relief under the HIPC initiative and MDRI compared to public health spending (in million US$) in 23 countries, September 2008a.
| Countries at completion point for HIPC initiativeb | HIPC qualification date |
Nominal debt relief |
HIPC debt service relief compared to public health spending |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decision point date | Completion point date | Under HIPCc | Under MDRI | Average annual HIPC debt reliefd A | Public health spending in 2005e B | A as a % of B | |
| Benin | Jul 2000 | Mar 2003 | 460 | 1 128 | 23 | 130 | 18 |
| Bolivia | Feb 2000 | Jun 2001 | 2 060 | 2 850 | 124 | 399 | 31 |
| Burkina Faso | Jul 2000 | Apr 2002 | 930 | 1 194 | 25 | 187 | 13 |
| Cameroon | Oct 2000 | Apr 2006 | 4 917 | 1 297 | 133 | 256 | 52 |
| Ethiopia | Nov 2001 | Apr 2004 | 3 275 | 3 319 | 144 | 309 | 47 |
| Gambia | Dec 2000 | Dec 2007 | 90 | 393 | 9.6 | 9 | 113 |
| Ghana | Feb 2002 | Jul 2004 | 3 500 | 3 921 | 236 | 277 | 85 |
| Guyana | Nov 2000 | Dec 2003 | 1 354 | 712 | 57 | 37 | 154 |
| Honduras | Jun 2000 | Apr 2005 | 1 000 | 2 739 | 75 | 369 | 20 |
| Madagascar | Dec 2000 | Oct 2004 | 1 900 | 2 397 | 62 | 106 | 58 |
| Malawi | Dec 2000 | Aug 2006 | 1 600 | 1 593 | 90 | 227 | 40 |
| Mali | Sep 2000 | Mar 2003 | 895 | 1 967 | 45 | 159 | 28 |
| Mauritania | Feb 2000 | Jun 2000 | 1 100 | 882 | 46 | 37 | 124 |
| Mozambique | Apr 2000 | Sep 2001 | 4 300 | 2 028 | 121 | 189 | 64 |
| Nicaragua | Dec 2000 | Jan 2004 | 4 500 | 1 928 | 192 | 209 | 92 |
| Niger | Dec 2000 | Apr 2004 | 1 190 | 1 063 | 66 | 50 | 132 |
| Rwanda | Dec 2000 | Apr 2005 | 1 316 | 523 | 46 | 97 | 47 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Dec 2000 | Mar 2007 | 263 | 64 | 6.5 | 6 | 102 |
| Senegal | Jun 2000 | Apr 2004 | 850 | 2 471 | 47 | 164 | 29 |
| Sierra Leone | Mar 2002 | Dec 2006 | 994 | 665 | 47 | 23 | 203 |
| Uganda | Feb 2000 | May 2000 | 1 950 | 3 522 | 81 | 183 | 44 |
| United Republic of Tanzania | Apr 2000 | Nov 2001 | 3 000 | 3 843 | 118 | 256 | 46 |
| Zambia | Dec 2000 | Apr 2005 | 3 900 | 2 783 | 151 | 211 | 72 |
| Total | 45 344 | 43 285 | |||||
HIPC, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries; MDRI, Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative. a Committed debt relief under the assumption of full participation of creditors. b In total, 41 countries are currently eligible for the HIPC Initiative. The table indicates the 23 countries at completion point. Ten countries receive interim debt relief as they were not at completion point at time of publication. Decision point dates are in parentheses: Afghanistan (July 2007), Burundi (August 2005), the Central African Republic (September 2007), Chad (May 2001), the Congo (March 2006), the Democratic Republic of Congo (July 2003), Guinea (December 2000), Guinea-Bissau (December 2000), Haiti (November 2006) and Liberia (March 2008). Eight countries are potentially eligible but have not yet qualified (i.e. pre-decision point countries): Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Somalia, the Sudan and Togo. c Includes assistance under the original and the enhanced framework and topping up at completion point. d Refers to the average annual nominal HIPC relief in the first 10 years following the completion point as indicated in the countries’ completion point document. e Public health spending refers to general government expenditure on health (in 2005), i.e. the sum of outlays by government entities to purchase health-care services and goods, notably by ministries of health and social security agencies. Besides domestic funds it also includes external resources (mainly as grants passing through the government or loans channelled through the national budget).10