The Health Sector Financing Reform (HSFR)/HFG project has supported the Ethiopian government to implement a wide range of health care financing reforms. One such reform allows hospitals and health centers to retain revenue collected from patient fees to make quality improvements. In this short video, personnel at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital located in Bahir Dar, […]
On Tuesday, March 27th, the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project hosted a roundtable a roundtable on Health Financing Strategies at the Washington Learning Center in Arlington, Virginia. This event will focus on Health Financing Strategies, and the launch of the Developing & Implementing Health Financing Strategies learning brief. Speakers: Aye Aye Thwin, Special Advisor, Office of […]
March 20-21, 2018 Health finance officials from Ministries of Finance and Health of Barbados, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago are convening this week with international experts from the USAID-funded Health Finance and Governance project for a 2-day workshop on Domestic Resource Mobilization for HIV and health at the Marriott Hotel in Bridgetown, Barbados. Ms. […]
Today, on International Women’s Day, we join the international community in celebrating and recognizing women across the globe. We recently sat down with two women who have contributed greatly to the HFG project, Dr. Mursaleena Islam and Jocelyne Nkongolo, to discuss the challenges they have faced as women in their fields and to get an […]
Written by Sydney Taylor and Meredith Klein Dr. Jean Geto Dubé has faced his fair share of financial challenges as executive director of Justinien University Hospital (JUH) in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. Standing before the hospital’s department heads in February, he provided a sort of State of the Union of the hospital’s finances. The situation was discouraging: […]
Achieving malaria elimination: the role of country-specific economic evidence
Achieving malaria elimination: the role of country-specific economic evidence
“Investing in Family Planning is the gift that keeps on giving” – HFG’s Dr. Chris Atim during his presentation on mobilizing domestic resources for family planning. Together with the HP+, SHOPS Plus, PACE, and SIFPO2 projects, HFG led several sessions at a regional meeting titled, “Attaining Sustainable Financing For Family Planning In Sub-Saharan Africa” which […]
Going into its sixth year in Bangladesh, HFG has successfully supported various activities focused on raising awareness of universal health coverage (UHC) and driving momentum for achieving UHC in Bangladesh. These activities focus on investing in health systems that put people at the center, increasing political will and citizen demand, and drawing learnings from diverse […]
In December 2017, HFG Dominican Republic presented the results of a baseline assessment of 11 specialized HIV clinics, called Comprehensive Care Services, at a workshop organized by the Dominican National Health Service (SNS). These HIV clinics offer free or inexpensive health care, including testing and antiretroviral treatment. The analysis highlighted the performance of the HIV […]
