Resource Type: Brief
Authors: Hailu Zelelew, Nathan Blanchet, Andrew Won
Published: April 2018

Resource Description: As countries strive to achieve universal health coverage, they must implement health insurance systems or other types of financial protection programs that protect against financial risk and improve access to quality and affordable health care. This brief articulates lessons learned by USAID’s Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project in its efforts to help countries sustain and expand coverage through health insurance, with several illustrations from Ghana and Ethiopia.