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Integrating Financing of Vertical Health Programs: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Health Finance and Governance Project Published: September 2018 Resource Description: For better or worse, many low- and middle- income countries inherited vertical programs in which programming, financing, governance, and service delivery are all organized around an individual disease.  Governments must now decide whether a new government-managed financing scheme such as national or social health […]

The Link between Provider Payment and Quality of Maternal Health Services: Case studies on provider payment mechanisms in Kyrgyz Republic, Nigeria, and Zambia

This paper presents case studies of provider payment systems in the Kyrgyz Republic, Nigeria, and Zambia that link a quality improvement initiative with provider payment. It documents these programs’ experience with design and implementation and lessons learned for other health care payers seeking to improve quality at the point of care through redesign of a […]

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Kyrgyzstan Modernizes TB Hospital Financing

The Kyrgyz Republic, a former Soviet Union country bordering China, has one of the highest rates of the difficult-to-treat multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in the world—with 26 percent of new TB cases estimated to be MDR, compared to 3 percent of new TB cases worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 55 percent […]

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