USAID’s HFG Project is working with partners around the world to protect families from catastrophic health care costs, expand access to priority services – such as maternal and child health care and HIV services, and ensure equitable population coverage. These three pillars are at the crux of the global movement for Universal Health Coverage, which […]
This week the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health, USAID, and the HFG Project are delivering a Healthcare Financing Capacity-Building Workshop for health officials from around Nigeria. The impetus was a Presidential Summit held in Abuja in March 2014 that issued a ‘Declaration on Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.’ The declaration recognized that Universal Health Coverage (UHC) “… holds the […]
Burundi’s National HIV/AIDS Program, Programme de la Lutte Contre le SIDA et les Infections Sexuellement Transmissibles or PNLS was created in 2011 when the Ministries of Public Health and HIV/AIDS were combined. A relatively new organization, PNLS is tasked with leading the long-term implementation the Ministry of Health’s HIV/AIDS programs. But PNLS lacks strong management and organizational capacity, […]
USAID’s Health Systems 20/20 Project website was retired in December, 2014. The Health Systems 20/20 project was the predecessor to the Health Finance and Governance Project. Health Systems 20/20 documents are available via the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (USAID DEC). The top 100 most popular documents were also migrated to the HFG website and are available under Publications. Launched […]
Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has captured the attention of the global health community as one of the most ambitious plans for universal health coverage (UHC) in Africa. For more than a decade, NHIS has offered insurance benefits to thousands of Ghanaians in the formal sector, and covers an estimated 35% of the overall […]
To increase the efficiency and quality of health services, the Government of Botswana has launched an ambitious plan to expand public-private partnerships in the health system. As part of these reforms, the Ministry of Health has started to outsource non-clinical services, including laundry, cleaning, food services, and security, at several major hospitals across the country. […]
In Swaziland, nurses and midwives are at the frontline of caring for their communities, forming a critical cadre in tackling the country’s health challenges, such as the tuberculosis and HIV and AIDS epidemics. As the country’s leading organization for overseeing the country’s nurses, the Swaziland Nursing Council (SNC) has a legal mandate to regulate, direct, […]
Over 1,700 participants from 90+ countries descended upon Cape Town last week for the Health Systems Global Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. The HFG team was busy with several staff presenting at the Symposium and pre-Symposium satellite sessions. The pre-Symposium agenda boasted over 50 events led by leading organizations and institutions, September 29-30. […]
See what the HFG Project is up to in Cape Town! HFG is excited to be in Cape Town, South Africa, for the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. Learn more about our sessions from the interactive Storify below. Pre-Symposium sessions on September 29-30, 2014, included the Third Global Governance for Health Roundtable and the satellite […]
The latest installment of the HFG Project’s Mobile Money Newsletter highlights mobile microinsurance in the context of health. Mobile microinsurance is broadly defined as any microinsurance product that leverages mobile channels. CGAP has identified 84+ examples of mobile microinsurance which are creating innovative insurance products and business models driven by insurers, mobile network operators (MNOs), and other groups (such […]
