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Monitoring and Evaluating the Transition of Health Programs: New Guide Released

Health Finance, Publications, Resource Mobilization, Universal Health Coverage

Transition can be defined as the transfer of financial, leadership and programmatic responsibilities for a health program from a donor to a recipient, according to a pre-defined plan. The current importance of transition is framed by an increased focus on sustainability and country capacity to lead and manage programs as program priorities change, and external […]

Tracking Family Planning Spending Using the System of Health Accounts Framework

Presentations, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Karishmah Bhuwanee traveled to Bali, Indonesia in January 2016 to present at the International Conference on Family Planning. This presentation helped promote USAID’s global leadership on the topics of results based financing in family planning supply chains, family planning inclusion in universal health coverage initiatives and the importance of resource tracking to improve family planning […]

Improving Health Data Quality in India’s Haryana and Punjab States

Publications, Where We Work

Resource Type: Success Story Authors: Health Finance & Governance Project Published: 1/1/2016 Resource Description: In India, progress on key health targets for maternal and child mortality has been slow. The 2015 United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report found that “poor data quality, lack of timely data and unavailability of disaggregated data” is a key challenge to India’s […]

Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (RMNCH) Expenditure Bangladesh

Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Home Page Map, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

The latest edition of the Bangladesh National Health Accounts (BNHA), also termed as the fourth round of BNHA, tracks the total health expenditure in Bangladesh between the fiscal years 1997 to 2012. It cross-stratified and categorized healthcare expenditures by financing, provision and consumption on an annual basis. For production of BNHA, System of Health Accounts […]

Association between starting methadone maintenance therapy and changes in income and expenditures: Results of a facility exit interview

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), HIV/AIDS, Publications

Resource Type: Journal Article Authors: Vietnam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control, Health Financing and Governance Project Published:  December 2015 Resource Description: The primary objective of this survey is to estimate the change in average income and general expenditures of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) clients associated with starting MMT care. The null hypothesis is that income among MMT clients […]

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Outsourcing Cleaning Services at Mahalapye Hospital, Botswana – Journal Article

Journal Publications, Resource Mobilization, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Journal Article Authors: Jonathan Cali, Heather A. Cogswell, Mompati Buzwani, Elizabeth Ohadi, Carlos Avila Published: December 2015 Resource Description: As published in the Journal of Hospital Administration 2016, Vol. 5, No. 1. As part of its national privatization strategy to diversify the economy, Botswana has started outsourcing nonclinical services at seven public hospitals. Hospital managers are signing contracts […]

Viral-Load Point-of-Care Technologies to Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation

HIV/AIDS, Journal Publications, Where We Work

Ending the AIDS epidemic requires not only political commitment and financial resources but also innovative solutions. New point-of-care (POC) technology to detect HIV viral load promises to be a game changer in the diagnosis and monitoring of HIV infection. Poverty and distance from healthcare facilities often place people infected with HIV beyond the reach of […]

Implementing Pro-Poor Universal Health Coverage

Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Journal Article Authors: Participants at the Bellagio Workshop on Implementing Pro-Poor Universal Health Coverage: Jesse Bump, Cheryl Cashin, Kalipso Chalkidou, David Evans, Eduardo González-Pier, Yan Guo, Jeanna Holtz, Daw Thein Thein Htay, Carol Levin, Robert Marten, Sylvester Mensah, Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Ravindra Rannan-Eliya, Martín Sabignoso, Helen Saxenian, Neelam Sekhri Feachem, Agnes Soucat, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Hong Wang, Addis Tamire Woldemariam, Gavin Yamey Published: December 2015 Resource Description: From The […]

Policy Report: Implementing Pro-Poor Universal Health Coverage – Lessons from Country Experience

Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Gavin Yamey and David Evans Published: November 2015 Resource Description: Universal health coverage (UHC)—ensuring that everyone has access to quality, affordable health services when needed—can be a vehicle for improved equity, health, financial well-being, and economic development. In its 2013 report, Global Health 2035, the Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) made the case that progressive (“pro-poor”) pathways towards UHC, which target […]

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