Join Health Systems Global’s Translating Evidence into Action Working Group for a webinar on Wednesday, October 26th, featuring Devaki Nambiar and Avril Kaplan.

In early October, 2016 the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project supported the delivery of the 2016 Asia Regional Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening and Sustainable Financing: The Challenge of Universal Health Coverage in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Network for Health Systems Strengthening (ANHSS), USAID, and the World Bank, the course was […]

Last month, The Lancet published a series of six papers on maternal health, which summarizes the evidence on maternal health interventions and brings “our knowledge of maternal health, its epidemiology, successes, and current failings together, at a crucial time within the sustainable development framework to 2030. The series concludes with a call to action setting […]

A priority for the Government of Botswana is to develop a health financing strategy – with the goal of sustaining HIV care and treatment. The question is how to achieve the principles of financial protection, equity, and quality with the provision of essential HIV and health services that ensures government affordability and long-term sustainability. For the […]

With support from USAID, and in collaboration with UNICEF and the World Bank, the HFG project convened a three-day Expert Review Panel this week in Baltimore to reach consensus on effect sizes that can be included in modeling tools such as The EQUitable Impact Sensitive Tool (EQUIST).

Recently, the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Project organized a multi-country workshop to support policymakers from public health and finance agencies in developing concrete action plans for mobilizing domestic resources for health. Twenty-five health and finance experts from Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Peru, Tanzania, and the United States, convened at the Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) for […]

On Thursday, September 22 at 9:00 AM EDT, the HFG Project hosted a technical briefing session on the JLN’s work on the ground, and to hear from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) about their collaboration with the JLN and the HFG project. We will hear from Amanda Folsom (JLN Program Director, Results for Development), Nathaniel Otoo, […]

Cambodia has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. Meanwhile, donor funding for TB is declining, the government is struggling to generate new resources for TB, and out-of-pocket spending still accounts for a significant share of health and TB expenditures. Cambodia needs to identify mechanisms to improve the efficiency of TB spending […]

In Nigeria, private organizations, including the media, are heeding the call to take ownership of the HIV and AIDS response. Rivers state radio station Cool/Wazobia FM/Nigeria Info has shown commitment to the cause, signing a deal in July 2016 to provide HIV-related programming over the next two years. The memorandum of understanding—worth over 19 million […]

In many Ethiopian communities, not unlike other traditional societies, men are the head of household—the primary income earners and decision makers. As keepers of the family purse, men often make all financial decisions for the family–including spending on healthcare.