Tracking the flow of health aid from BRICS countries.

At the same time, emerging economies such as Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – the so-called BRICS – are playing increasingly important roles in global health, including being donors of international health aid. In 2010, these five countries had estimated foreign as -sistance budgets of 400–1200, 427, 680, 3900 and 143 million United States dol -lars, respectively.