Cape Town Symposium Highlights People-Centered Health Systems
September 18, 2014The HFG Project is looking forward to the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, which will take place in Cape Town, South Africa later this month. The theme ‒ the science and practice of people-centered health systems‒will address “the c …
Expanding the Evidence Base for How Accountability, Transparency Contribute to Health Outcomes
September 17, 2014The Third Global Governance for Health Roundtable will take place September 29-30 in Cape Town, South Africa, just before the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. The HFG Project is collaborating with the Leadership, Management & Go …
Measuring Progress towards UHC: HFG’s Fifth Brown Bag Discussion
September 16, 2014The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as the outcome of health system performance, whereby all people who need health services (promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation) receive them witho …
Accelerating Evidence Generation for Governance Contributions to Health Outcomes
September 4, 2014On July 23, 2014, the USAID Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project hosted a one-day workshop at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on generating evidence of governance contributions to health outcomes. The event brought together almost …
First Steering Committee Meeting Held on State Health Accounts in Haryana, India
August 20, 2014Understanding the magnitude and flow of financial resources is an important factor in making informed decisions about the equitable and efficient allocation of resources. Data from State Level Health Accounts (SLHA) can provide such information and c …
New Brochure Highlights Health Accounts Production Tool
August 12, 2014The Health Accounts (HA) framework is an internationally standardized methodology for measuring financial resource flows in the health sector. It provides health expenditure information to policymakers and stakeholders in ways that can be clearly and …
Options for Integrating Procurement and Supply Chain Systems for ARVs, Methadone, and anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in Vietnam
August 12, 2014Given the projected decline in donor funding for HIV/AIDS and TB programs, many countries are faced with the reality of integrating these programs completely into national budgets while at the same time, planning for scaling up these programs. The Go …
Africa Health Financing Workshop A Success
August 6, 2014Recently, an HFG team traveled to Tanzania to help facilitate USAID’s East and Central Africa Workshop on Healthcare Financing Capacity-Building, a program of the Regional Africa Bureau. The workshop was designed to provide USAID staff with the tools …
Investments in HIV and AIDS Are Paying Off
August 5, 2014New analysis presented during the 2014 International AIDS Society Conference shows that investments in HIV and AIDS in low and middle-income countries are paying off. The data indicate that for the average country in Sub-Saharan Africa, increasing p …
Scaling up HIV Care and Treatment in Côte d’Ivoire through Human Resources for Health Interventions
July 11, 2014Inadequate numbers of health workers, as well as their uneven distribution throughout the country, is a key barrier to the scale-up of HIV treatment in Côte d’Ivoire. According to a 2014 United Nations Population Fund report, the country has only 48 …
