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Synopsis The belief that every human being - no matter where they live - deserves a healthy life is the chief impetus to the movement of Public-Private Partnerships in health. It is unconscionable that the better-off members of the planet usurp the existing facilities in health for their betterment and leave the poorest at the mercy of life-threatening diseases. Public-Private Partnerships in health are gaining in importance in many parts of the world. The importance has evolved out of the need to address demanding issues of health equity and the failure on part of the public and private bodies (separately) to resolve such issues due to respective constraints. To provide good health to their teeming millions, many of whom cannot even afford two square meals a day or a roof over their head, governments in the developing world need enormous resources, financial, human etc, which are often woefully wanting. The diversity of objectives, arrangement of funding and the level of interaction between the partners give the Public-Private Partnerships in health a very multi-dimensional nature. Undoubtedly, Public-Private Partnerships have many strengths and address the individual weaknesses of public and private bodies (separately), but this fledging mode of organization has also begun showing its own weaknesses. Some of these weaknesses are threatening to be grave potential challenges. Yet, as the book delineates, they are the silverlining in an environment fraught with new and deadly diseases like AIDS, malaria, encephalitis, SARS, Avian Flu and many more that are threatening to evolve.