Ethiopia Disseminates Fifth Round of NHA
April 18, 2014Speaking before 120 people at the dissemination of Ethiopia’s fifth round of National Health Accounts (NHA), held April 10th in Addis Ababa, State Minister for Health Dr. Amir Aman pledged to make use of the new findings in the government’s policy ma …
World Health Day: Fighting Vector-borne Diseases with Strong Health Systems
April 3, 2014This year, World Health Day is dedicated to raising awareness about the problem of vector-borne diseases, which kill more than one million people in low- and middle-income countries each year. The World Health Organization estimates more than half o …
Asia Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening, Sustainable Financing
March 26, 2014At least half a dozen Asian countries are planning or implementing governance and financing reforms to achieve universal health coverage. But policymakers in these countries are faced with difficult decisions, including how to fund health care, which …
SHA 2011 Explained in New Brief
March 25, 2014Health resource tracking is a vital component of health systems strengthening because it gives stakeholders valuable information about patterns in the financing, provision, and consumption of health care resources. The System of Health Accounts (SHA) …
New Findings Point to Potential UHC Indicators
March 19, 2014As more countries strive to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), the question of how to measure their progress is receiving more scrutiny. At the recent African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) conference, the HFG Health Financing …
Measuring Progress toward UHC in Africa
March 11, 2014Universal health coverage (UHC) – a health system where everyone has access to the health services they need and can take advantage of them without risk of financial impoverishment – is seen as a critical component of sustainable development for low- …
New IT Equipment will Help Burundi’s Fight against AIDS
March 10, 2014U.S. Ambassador Dawn M. Liberi (l), Burundi’s Minister of Health, Sabine Ntakarutimana (c), and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs David Gilmour (r) at the hand-over ceremony To better serve its citizens living with HIV …
Early Adopters of Mobile Money for Health
March 6, 2014This week, the Center for Health Market Innovations newsletter highlights HFG’s new findings on how mobile money is being used for health. HFG’s mobile money team has identified 18 distinct ways in which mobile money is being used for health i …
Prime Minister Opens HRH Meeting in Swaziland
March 6, 2014The Prime Minister of Swaziland Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini opens HFG’s HRH retreat. To his right is the Education Minister Phineas Magagula. A surprise guest opened HFG’s recent human resources for health (HRH) workshop in Swaziland. On retreat …
Ethiopia Scales Up Community-based Health Insurance
March 5, 2014A representative from a women’s organization describes how CBHI improves women’s lives. In Ethiopia, there is an old tradition called idir or kire of community organizations providing financial help to families for emergencies, like funerals. But a n …
