%0 Journal Article %T Calling non-governmental organisations to strengthen primary health care: Lessons following Alma-Ata %A Colin Pfaff %A Dawit Wondimagegn %A Katherine Rouleau %A Megan Landes %A Meseret Zerihun %A Michael R. Kidd %A Sumeet Sodhi %J Archive of "African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine". %D 2019 %R 10.4102/phcfm.v11i1.1945 %X The Alma-Ata DeclarationĄ¯s commitment to primary health care (PHC) reaches its 40th anniversary in 2018. Over the last 40 years, the number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in low-income countries (LICs) has rapidly multiplied, and over time, NGOs have both positively and negatively impacted equity, effectiveness, appropriateness and efficiency of PHC systems in LICs %K global health %K family medicine %K primary care %K primary health care %K non-governmental organisations %K Alma-Ata %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556919/