Essential Health Services Country Snapshot Series
July 31, 2015A new series of country profiles analyzes the governance dimensions of Essential Packages of Health Services (EPHS) in the 24 Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD) priority countries. An EPHS can be defined as the package of services t …
“Groundbreaking” Report Links HSS Interventions to Health Outcomes
July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 – USAID’s Office of Health Systems (OHS) released a major new report, which for the first time presents a significant body of evidence linking health systems strengthening interventions to measurable impacts on health outcomes. The Impa …
Impact of Health Systems Strengthening on Health
July 28, 2015Leaders in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) require timely and compelling evidence about how to strengthen their health systems to improve the health and well-being of their citizens. Yet, evidence on how to strengthen health system performan …
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Successful in Global Fund Bid
July 24, 2015The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) for HIV/AIDS was successful in their Global Fund bid on behalf of six Eastern Caribbean nations. The $5.3 million grant is earmarked for outreach, prevention, c …
Botswana Costing Study: Outsourcing Adds Value, Boosts Quality
July 22, 2015Botswana’s currency, pula To deliver better quality services at a lower cost, the Government of Botswana has been pursuing a strategy of outsourcing nonclinical hospital services ‒ such as laundry, cleaning, and security ‒ to private vendors since 20 …
Webinar | Translating Evidence to Policy, the Chilean Health Benefits Plan Development Process
July 6, 2015Health Systems’ Global (HSG)’s Translating Evidence into Action Working Group hosted this webinar exploring Chile’s use of evidence in the design of their Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees (AUGE) health benefit plan (HBP) and reflecting on fa …
PEPFAR Transitions to Country Ownership Highlighted in GHSP Journal
July 6, 2015As the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) shifts from direct funding for HIV and AIDS programming to increased country ownership, many countries are preparing to navigate this transition. An article by Abt Associates’ Abigail Vo …
Paving the Way for Universal Health Coverage in Peru
July 2, 2015en español Since implementing health sector reform in 1998, Peru has reached 80 percent of its population with health services, putting the country well on the path toward achieving universal health coverage (UHC). This progress is significant for th …
Remedying Urgent Health Worker Challenges in Haryana, India
June 15, 2015Late last year, several employees of the Haryana Health Department filed a legal challenge as a result of receiving transfer orders to work at different health facilities. The plaintiffs claimed they had been wrongly transferred due to record-keeping …
Social Workers Critical Advocates for Swaziland’s Child Victims
June 5, 2015Anatomically correct dolls to help child victims tell their stories In many parts of the world, violence against children is a tragic reality. In Swaziland the statistics paint an especially sobering picture. Nearly one in three Swazi girls experienc …
