Tag Archives: El Salvador

Assessment of the private sector’s role in El Salvador’s HIV response

Resource Type: Brief Authors:  José Soto Published: September 2018 Resource Description: The assessment concludes by suggesting areas for potential further action to enhance public-private partnerships. These are to integrate the public and private sector capacities into the country’s response, and enable private provision of anti-retroviral treatment and potentially self-testing services for population with payment capacity. The […]

The Efficiency of the El Salvador HIV Program Mission Support

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Daniel Aran Published: September 2018 Resource Description: This is a survey carried out under El Salvador’s National STI/HIV/AIDS Program as an exploratory mission to search for inefficiencies that may require support. The first finding was that many analyses of the program were already in existence, including previous reports with suggestions for modifications. […]

La Eficiencia del Programa de VIH de El Salvador: Informe de la Sendunda Mision Final

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Health Finance and Governance Project Published: September 2018 Resource Description: El Proyecto de Financiamiento y Gobernanza de la Salud (conocido por sus siglas en inglés, HFG), financiado por la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID), ha solicitado asistencia técnica para el Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador con el […]

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Webinar | Power, Politics, Resilience: Health Reforms in El Salvador and Guatemala

There is growing recognition that policy reform for resilient health systems and universal health coverage requires more than sound technical solutions. The policy process is equally important in determining the success of any health reform initiative. On Thursday, January 19th, 2017, the HFG Project presented an independent comparative policy analysis exploring the post-conflict health reforms of […]

Aedes Vector Control Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean – Five Country Assessments

The first case of local, vector-borne transmission of the Zika virus in the Americas was identified in May 2015 in Brazil. By July 2016, the virus had spread to nearly all Zika-suitable transmission zones in the Americas, including the majority of countries and territories in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Governments in the […]

Entomological Monitoring, Environmental Compliance, and Vector Control Capacity for the Prevention of Zika and Other Arboviruses: El Salvador Assessment Report

Resource Type: Report Authors: Juan I. Arredondo-Jiménez and Alan Wheeler Published: 9/1/2016 Resource Description:  The first case of local, vector-borne transmission of the Zika virus in the Americas was identified in May 2015 in Brazil. By July 2016, the virus had spread to nearly all Zika-suitable transmission zones in the Americas, including the majority of countries and […]

Tax Reform and Resource Mobilization for Health

Resource Type: Report Authors:  Shan Soe-Lin, Sasha Frankel, Eunice Heredia-Ortiz, and Marty Makinen Published: 12/01/2015 Resource Description:  As development assistance for health shrinks and the demand for health expenditures increases, developing countries are under mounting pressure to provide adequate resources for health. Governments can increase available public resources by benefiting from overall economic growth, borrowing, making efficiency […]

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Tax Reform as a Strategy to Mobilize Additional Resources for Health

As development assistance for health shrinks and the demand for health expenditures increases, developing countries are under mounting pressure to provide adequate resources for health. Governments can increase available public resources by benefiting from overall economic growth, borrowing, making efficiency gains, and reforming tax laws and improving tax administration, among others. Tax Reform and Resource […]

Advancing Maternal, Child Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Recently, USAID sponsored a course for more than 40 delegates from the Ministries of Health and Finance from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador and Peru to learn about strategies for progressing toward Universal Health Coverage and advancing maternal and child health. The workshop, which took place in Panama City, Panama, focused on the challenge […]

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