Strengthening public health systems and health services delivery is a major priority for the state of Haryana in India. Despite its status as one of India’s richest states, Haryana has poor performance on several key child and maternal health indicators—in part due to limited access to health care. Effective decision-making and evidence-based strategies about how […]
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Launched at the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver, the film – Stronger Health Systems: Expanding Access to Care, Improving Health – was featured as part of the conference’s Global Health TV coverage.
People living with HIV and AIDS in Vietnam have greater access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) than ever before, largely as a result of support from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and The Global Fund. Together, they have worked with the government to cover 95% of the costs of ARVs ($21.2 million in 2014). In particular, HIV […]
The first case of local, vector-borne transmission of the Zika virus in the Americas was identified in May 2015 in Brazil. By July 2016, the virus had spread to nearly all Zika-suitable transmission zones in the Americas, including the majority of countries and territories in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Governments in the […]
At the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver, the HFG project hosted a panel session with the World Bank. The session, “Models, Risks, and Challenges of Transitioning Health Programs from Donors to Countries: Finance and Governance” featured: Tim Evans (World Bank), Bob Fryatt (HFG Project/Abt Associates), Aparna Kollipara (South Africa National Treasury), Giang Thanh […]
Health Systems Global’s Translating Evidence into Action Technical Working Group (TWG) hosted a TWG Panel Session at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver on Thursday, November 17, 2016. The session, “Decoding Knowledge Translation: Initiatives, Institutions, and Perspectives on Moving from Knowledge to Action and Working Across Constituencies for Policy and Program […]
The USAID Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Project and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) hosted a symposium session on Tuesday, November 15th from 4-5:45 pm, at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Atlanta, GA.
On October 26, from 9-10 AM EDT, Health Systems Global’s Translating Evidence to Action Working Group hosted a webinar introducing the Baseline Inventory of Global Initiatives for Knowledge Translation. The inventory, compiled in collaboration with the SHAPES TWG, covers 75 initiatives (aimed at everything from banning baby walkers to reducing hospital acquired infections) from 45 […]
Join HFG at the following conferences this fall. October: 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health Liverpool, UK | October 25-29 | #UnionConf Thursday, October 27, 2016, 5:30-7:00 PM BST | Satellite Session How Facilities Earn their Keep: Provider Payment for Quality TB Services Governments often pay for health inputs, providing $x for patient food […]
