Strengthening National Leadership of Burundi’s HIV and AIDS Response
May 2, 2017This brief describes the process of strengthening the organizational capacity of the Ministry of Health’s HIV/AIDS program (PNLS) in Burundi from 2013 to 2016. The story of this activity is a remarkable one. In the course of the three years, PNLS wen …
Brechas financieras en la respuesta nacional al VIH y SIDA
May 1, 2017English Version Resource Type: Publicación Authors: Claudia Valdez, Jonathan Cali y Carlos Avila Published: May 2017 Resource Description: El Plan Estratégico Nacional (PEN) para la Respuesta Nacional al VIH y el SIDA fue elaborado en 2014 con un hor …
Caso de Inversión para una Respuesta Acelerada contra la Epidemia del VIH en la República Dominicana
May 1, 2017English Version Resource Type: Publicación Authors: Adebiyi Adesina y Carlos Avila Published: May 2017 Resource Description: Estos resultados demuestran que una “Acción Acelerada” de implementación de las metas de 90-90-90 es la opción más costo-efec …
Antiretroviral Therapy in Botswana: Comparing Costs, Service Utilization, and Quality at Three Levels of Care
April 13, 2017Under Botswana’s ambitious Treat All Strategy, nearly 350,000 people living with HIV will require antiretroviral therapy (ART) by 2020. With almost half of Botswana’s health expenditure already allocated to HIV, the Ministry of Health (MOH) will need …
Vietnam 2013 General Health Accounts and Disease Expenditures with Sub-Analysis of 2013 HIV/AIDS Expenditure
April 1, 2017System of Health Accounts (SHA) is a useful tool; through analysis of the system of health financing indicators, it helps to describe systematically the flow of the financial resources relating to the use, the consumption of the health goods and serv …
Costs of HIV Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis Testing in Kenya
March 1, 2017Resource Type: Report Authors: Christopher Cintron, Victor Mudhune, Romana Haider, Heather Cogswell, Jose Gutierrez, Frank Angira, and Carlos Avila Published: April 2017 Resource Description: Kenya’s current HIV care guidelines call for universal cov …
Baseline Survey of Basic Health Service Package paid by Health Insurance Fund and Sub-Package on care and treatment services for people living with HIV/AIDS
December 31, 2016Resource Type: Brief Authors: Health Financing and Governance Project Published: December 2016 Resource Description: The baseline survey will provide a set of evidence which will be used for the guidelines to support the implementation of Vietnam’s b …
Options for Developing a Collective Payment System and Co-payment Mechanism for Antiretrovirals using the Vietnamese Health Insurance Fund
September 29, 2016What follows is a draft proposal submitted by Health Finance & Governance (HFG) to local partners to present policy options for centralized reimbursement and co-payment. In this way, HFG provides much needed technical support to the Ministry of Healt …
HFG Project TB Strategic Purchasing Activity: Malawi Assessment Technical Report
September 15, 2016The purpose of the USAID HFG TB Strategic Purchasing Activity is to identify and recommend small improvements in TB purchasing/provider payment and related public finance management (PFM) mechanism to better target country health budgets towards prio …
Measuring Technical Efficiency of the Provision of Antiretroviral Therapy Among Public Facilities in Botswana
September 1, 2016The objective of this study was to analyze variations in the cost and efficiency of providing outpatient ART in public facilities in Botswana. Therefore, we applied an activity-based costing approach to collect data on the costs of delivering ART in …
