In early October, 2016 the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project supported the delivery of the 2016 Asia Regional Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening and Sustainable Financing: The Challenge of Universal Health Coverage in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Network for Health Systems Strengthening (ANHSS), USAID, and the World Bank, the course […]
Improving the quality of patient-centered health services is paramount to delivering on the promise of universal health coverage (UHC). While countries seek to expand access to affordable care, working towards the goal of UHC, we need to provide greater attention to ensuring quality care. In a survey of over 100 government officials from nine Joint Learning Network (JLN) member […]
Health systems provide the basic inputs for the delivery of health services, yet there is very little evidence that allows public health professionals to link investments in health systems to expected mortality outcomes. As a result, policymakers, health planners, and donors sometimes find it challenging to demonstrate the importance of investing in HSS activities. With […]
Botswana is classified as an upper-middle-income country, with an annual GDP of more than $17,000, according to World Bank estimates. The government is spending significant resources on health, as evidenced by the fact that the government’s health budget exceeds the “Abuja target” of 15 % of total government expenditures on health. But significant inequities in […]
As a follow up to the Health Care Financing Training Workshop held late June, 2016, the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project organized a one day stakeholders meeting on health financing core analytics in Cross River state on July 12. The health financing core analytics activity includes a situation analysis of the state’s health financing […]
Recently, the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Project organized a multi-country workshop to support policymakers from public health and finance agencies in developing concrete action plans for mobilizing domestic resources for health. Twenty-five health and finance experts from Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Peru, Tanzania, and the United States, convened at the Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) […]
With the growing push for universal health coverage worldwide, health policy and systems research or HPSR has been the focus of intense global interest in recent years. HPSR not only enhances program design and implementation, but also understanding of how to target investments and remove bottlenecks.
In Nigeria, private organizations, including the media, are heeding the call to take ownership of the HIV and AIDS response. Rivers state radio station Cool/Wazobia FM/Nigeria Info has shown commitment to the cause, signing a deal in July 2016 to provide HIV-related programming over the next two years.
In many Ethiopian communities, not unlike other traditional societies, men are the head of household—the primary income earners and decision makers. As keepers of the family purse, men often make all financial decisions for the family–including spending on healthcare. Prior to 1998, the majority of the Ethiopian population was not covered by health insurance, and […]
Photos from the training workshop, “Health Care Financing Training for HFG-Supported States” held in Lagos, Nigeria, from June 27-July 1, 2016.
