Preventing corruption in the health sector

➡ Preventing corruption in the health sector is a mean to advance health outcomes, not only an end by itself.
➡ Poor governance, accountability deficits and lack of transparency create a vicious circle that generates vulnerability to corruption.
➡ Vulnerability to corruption results in systemic corruption and a network of vested interests to keep the status quo, undermine governance, foster opacity and weaken accountability.
➡ These vicious circles result in waste, misappropriation of resources and loss of public trust, collectively undermining the performance of health systems and organizations and preventing them from realizing their objectives.

Consequently,
➡ Health systems, organizations and programs must consider tackling the vulnerability to corruption as part of their design and mandate, otherwise they will never realize their objectives for achieving UHC.
➡ Anticorruption programs must consider their efforts as part of broader efforts to achieve health sector goals and work with the sector to prevent corruption in it.
➡ A common language, a common agenda and common collaboration platforms between anticorruption agencies and public and private health sector actors at local, national, regional and global levels are critical.