It is encouraging that total donor funds committed to avian and human influenza broadly correspond to avoidable mortality rates estimated at country level. A recent paper on Financial and Technical Assistance from the 2010 International Ministerial Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza (IMCAPI) reports that over 50% of total donor funding committed towards avian and human influenza worldwide between 2005 and 2009 was allocated towards ''human health and pandemic preparedness'' (with other funds committed towards sectors such as animal health; monitoring, information, and internal coordination; and information, education and communication) [28] . However, the extent to which these funds have been, or will be, allocated towards mitigating the resource gaps identified in our study is unknown to us and beyond the scope of this analysis.