Prominent Health Accounting Approaches Explained
July 9, 2014Health accounting data that show economic and financial resource flows within a health system are critical to informing health and economic policy – at both national and international levels. However, countries vary widely in their health accounting …
Child-Friendly Courtroom Opens in Swaziland
June 25, 2014In many parts of the world, violence against children is sad reality. In Swaziland the statistics paint an especially sobering picture. Nearly one in three Swazi girls experiences sexual violence before the age of 18 and one in four suffer physical v …
Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Haiti Share Lessons Learned
June 17, 2014Recently, three HFG Chiefs of Party shared lessons learned in strengthening health finance and governance systems in their countries ‒ Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Haiti ‒ at a brown bag lunch held at the Ronald Reagan Building. Dr. Desire Boko expla …
Haiti Developing New National Health Financing Strategy
June 3, 2014To put its National Health Policy into action, Haiti needs to determine where the necessary resources will come from and how they will be spent. To bridge that gap, the HFG Project is working with the Ministry of Health’s Planning and Evaluation Unit …
Accrediting Nursing Education Institutions in Haiti
May 13, 2014In recent years, Haiti has experienced a boom in private nursing education. While the country has a long history of educating well-qualified nurses, little is known about the quality of education now being offered at the more than 400 private nursing …
Bangladesh’s Smiling Sun Program Offers Insights to Care-Seeking, Access
May 2, 2014The Smiling Sun Franchise Program (2007-2013) was a USAID-funded program in Bangladesh designed to support a network of local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to deliver a package of essential health services, with a focus on maternal and child …
NHA Brown Bag Sparks Lively Discussion
April 24, 2014For more than 20 years, USAID has led the use of National Health Accounts (NHA) to track the sources and uses of all health spending – donor, government, and private sector – in more than 70 low- and middle-income countries. “NHA provides extremely p …
Ethiopia Disseminates Fifth Round of NHA
April 18, 2014Speaking before 120 people at the dissemination of Ethiopia’s fifth round of National Health Accounts (NHA), held April 10th in Addis Ababa, State Minister for Health Dr. Amir Aman pledged to make use of the new findings in the government’s policy ma …
World Health Day: Fighting Vector-borne Diseases with Strong Health Systems
April 3, 2014This year, World Health Day is dedicated to raising awareness about the problem of vector-borne diseases, which kill more than one million people in low- and middle-income countries each year. The World Health Organization estimates more than half o …
Asia Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening, Sustainable Financing
March 26, 2014At least half a dozen Asian countries are planning or implementing governance and financing reforms to achieve universal health coverage. But policymakers in these countries are faced with difficult decisions, including how to fund health care, which …
