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The GFHR made one of the meeting's primary goals to address the so-called 10/90 gap. Only 10 per cent out US 70 billion dollars spent worldwide on health research by the public and private sectors is devoted to 90 per cent of health problems faced by poor countries. Most research money, according to GFHR, is spent on diseases like cancer or degenerative conditions, which are more common in affluent nations. The meeting in Arusha aimed to discuss recent progress in helping correct the 10/90 gap, disseminate key research findings, and develop longer term action plans for promoting health research for development and fight against poverty. The Global Forum's host partner was the National Institute for Medical Research of Tanzania (NIMR), an institution founded in 1980 to promote, coordinate, monitor, evaluate and undertake health research on behalf of the government of Tanzania.