The 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 challenge of how to make health systems more responsive to the needs of individuals, families […]
The 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 & Governance Project and the Health Policy Project on the event. The following blog post describes the state of […]
The 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 without undue financial hardship. To mark a country’s progress towards UHC, policymakers should first be able to define, measure, and monitor UHC. To […]
On 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 60 health and governance professionals from USAID, prominent external organizations such as the World Health Organization and […]
Understanding 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 can be particularly valuable in countries such as India where the health system is largely decentralized and most key […]
The 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 directly linked to a country’s health financing concerns and health system performance. While HA has been accepted as a critical […]
Given 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 Government of Vietnam
Recently, 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 needed to effectively dialogue with local country officials in an effort to increase domestic financing for health […]
New 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 per capita HIV and AIDS investments by US$12 per year is associated with 250,000 fewer AIDS-related deaths or a […]
Inadequate 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 percent of the maternal and newborn health workforce it needs. In addition to problems […]
