While there is growing consensus within the global health community on the importance of health systems strengthening (HSS) to improving service delivery and health outcomes, evidence linking HSS interventions to such outcomes is only beginning to emerge.
HFG Tanzania conducted a HIV and AIDS Public Expenditure Review (PER) in collaboration with the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS). The PER analyzes spending by development partners and the government of Tanzania between 2011/12 and 2013/14
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 […]
(This is the Burundi National Health Accounts report brief in French.) La démarche d’élaboration des Comptes de la Santé (CS) trouve toute son importance non seulement dans le besoin d’informations financières fiables pour la prise de décision dans le secteur de la santé, mais aussi et surtout dans la nécessité de cerner l’ensemble des mécanismes […]
(This is the Burundi National Health Accounts in French.) La démarche d’élaboration des Comptes de la Santé (CS) trouve toute son importance non seulement dans le besoin d’informations financières fiables pour la prise de décision dans le secteur de la santé, mais aussi et surtout dans la nécessité de cerner l’ensemble des mécanismes de financement […]
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 […]
Resource Type: Report Authors: Abigail Vogus and Kylie Graff Published: 12/15/2015 Resource Description: Given the new guidance in PEPFAR’s FY2014 Sustainability Planning Guidance Document, USAID/Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean requested the assistance of HFG and the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Project in conducting a literature review to frame “the transition of PEPFAR programming […]
Resource Type: Report Authors: Rachel Sanders, Lisa Tarantino Published: 12/2014 Resource Description: Antigua and Barbuda has made great strides in organizing its response to HIV and AIDS in recent years, and has managed to control the growth of the epidemic. The National AIDS Program (NAP) is now at a critical juncture as the country plans to adapt […]
Resource Type: Report Authors: Matt Hamilton, Stephen Musau Published: 12/2014 Resource Description: In 2014, the six countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines developed HIV and AIDS Investment Case Briefs, with the support of USAID’s Health Finance […]
