With the world’s highest prevalence of HIV (26 percent) and TB/HIV co-infection (80 percent of tuberculosis patients have HIV), Swaziland has a critical need for a well-trained and sustainable workforce of medical professionals. Swaziland’s health problems are aggravated by the lack of human resources – doctors, nurses, midwives – in its health system, with many […]
In Côte d’Ivoire, many of the country’s frontline, rural health facilities do not have a doctor present to care for patients, particularly those with HIV and AIDS. Instead, paramedical staff ‒ nurses, midwives and nursing auxiliaries‒account for 50 percent of the country’s total health care workforce. Despite playing a key role in providing overall primary […]
Recently, the HFG project hosted the World Bank Institute’s “Flagship Course on Economics and Health Financing for Latin America and the Caribbean” in Panama City, Panama. Funded by USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau, the course brought together more than 40 Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance representatives from the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, […]
On April 28 and 29, Haiti’s Ministry of Health will host a high-level conference to build commitment and momentum to defining a health financing strategy for the nation. The conference, “Access to health care for all in Haiti: Challenges and perspectives for funding,” will be streamed live. Registration for the live-stream is now open. The […]
Swaziland has a shortage of health workers for priority health services, particularly HIV and AIDS. This country of approximately one million citizens has the highest HIV prevalence in the world – 26 percent. At the same time, Swaziland has fewer than two healthcare workers ‒ doctors, nurses, or midwives ‒ for every 1,000 citizens. These numbers […]
En el marco del curso de USAID sobre el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de salud y la implementación de la Cobertura Sanitaria Universal que tuvo lugar en Panamá en el mes de marzo y al que asistieron representantes de varios países de Latinoamérica y Caribe, tuvimos ocasión de hablar con la delegación del Perú que […]
Marzo 2015 — La semana pasada en Panamá, USAID patrocinó un curso al que asistieron más de 40 delegados de ministerios de salud y finanzas de Guatemala, Guyana, Haití, Honduras, El Salvador, Perú y República Dominicana para aprender sobre el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de salud y la implementación de la Cobertura Sanitaria Universal. Para más información, […]
Over the past decade, Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has grown from a handful of community-based health insurance schemes into a formal scheme covering over 9.8 million people (more than 35 percent of the population). Despite this success, the NHIS has struggled to establish a robust system of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and to […]
From March 10-13, 2015, HFG hosted the World Bank Institute‘s “Flagship Course on Economics and Health Financing for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)” with regional partner Bitrán y Asociados in Panama City, Panama. Funded by USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau, the course brought together more than 40 Ministry of Health and Ministry of […]
The Kyrgyz Republic, a former Soviet Union country bordering China, has one of the highest rates of the difficult-to-treat multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in the world—with 26 percent of new TB cases estimated to be MDR, compared to 3 percent of new TB cases worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 55 percent […]
