Health accounting data that show economic and financial resource flows within a health system are critical to informing health and economic policy – at both national and international levels. However, countries vary widely in their health accounting histories as well as the demand for and capacity to produce these data. A new brief, System of […]
In many parts of the world, violence against children is sad reality. In Swaziland the statistics paint an especially sobering picture. Nearly one in three Swazi girls experiences sexual violence before the age of 18 and one in four suffer physical violence, according to a 2007 UNICEF national study on violence against children in Swaziland. […]
Recently, three HFG Chiefs of Party shared lessons learned in strengthening health finance and governance systems in their countries ‒ Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Haiti ‒ at a brown bag lunch held at the Ronald Reagan Building. Dr. Desire Boko explained HFG’s support to Cote d’Ivoire’s Office of the Inspection Generale to develop an accountability […]
To put its National Health Policy into action, Haiti needs to determine where the necessary resources will come from and how they will be spent. To bridge that gap, the HFG Project is working with the Ministry of Health’s Planning and Evaluation Unit to develop a national health financing strategy. This strategy will focus on […]
In recent years, Haiti has experienced a boom in private nursing education. While the country has a long history of educating well-qualified nurses, little is known about the quality of education now being offered at the more than 400 private nursing training institutions in Haiti. In addition, little is known about the technical skills of […]
The Smiling Sun Franchise Program (2007-2013) was a USAID-funded program in Bangladesh designed to support a network of local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to deliver a package of essential health services, with a focus on maternal and child health. The USAID-funded effort continues under a new program, called Smiling Sun, implemented under the NGO Health Service […]
For more than 20 years, USAID has led the use of National Health Accounts (NHA) to track the sources and uses of all health spending – donor, government, and private sector – in more than 70 low- and middle-income countries. “NHA provides extremely powerful information that should be used increasingly for policymaking … The power […]
Speaking before 120 people at the dissemination of Ethiopia’s fifth round of National Health Accounts (NHA), held April 10th in Addis Ababa, State Minister for Health Dr. Amir Aman pledged to make use of the new findings in the government’s policy making process. He urged partners throughout the health sector to use the NHA evidence […]
This year, World Health Day is dedicated to raising awareness about the problem of vector-borne diseases, which kill more than one million people in low- and middle-income countries each year. The World Health Organization estimates more than half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria, schistosomiasis, dengue, yellow fever and other vector-borne diseases, […]
At least half a dozen Asian countries are planning or implementing governance and financing reforms to achieve universal health coverage. But policymakers in these countries are faced with difficult decisions, including how to fund health care, which health services to cover, and which populations to cover first. To assist their planning process, USAID sponsored the […]
