Join HFG at Mini-U 2014!
March 4, 2014How do countries decide to finance their health care systems? Experts from the HFG Project will explore that question at the “Health Finance Food Court: What’s Cooking?” session of the Global Health Mini-University on Friday, March 7th. Session overv …
Studies Link Fee Exemptions and Insurance with Use of Maternal Health Services
February 24, 2014Two new HFG reports address one of public health’s most pressing issues: how to reduce maternal and early-childhood mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Specifically, the two papers looked at how insurance enrollment and fee exemptions affe …
Ghana Case Study Highlights Lessons for Universal Health Coverage
February 21, 2014The experience of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme holds important lessons for low- and middle-income countries seeking to implement universal health coverage. A new HFG case study, “Building on Community-based Health Insurance to Expand Nati …
Four Years Later: Rebuilding Haiti’s Health System
January 9, 2014The January 10th earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti four years ago lasted for only about 35 seconds, and yet had severe impacts on the country’s already-vulnerable health system. Half of the Haitian population lacked access to basic hea …
Where Are Our Budgets? Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys as Tools for Engaging with Civil Society
December 30, 2013Ensuring the funds allocated for health services and supplies are actually used for their intended purpose is key to increasing access to life-saving health care in low- and medium-income countries. For nearly two decades, countries and international …
HFG Publishes Mobile Money White Paper
December 4, 2013Mobile money provides unique opportunities in the health sector. Mobile money enables funds to be deposited, transferred, and withdrawn electronically through mobile phone accounts. It can be integrated into existing activities—replacing cash flows—t …
Angola’s MOH Champions New Health Strategy
November 26, 2013To mobilize more domestic resources for health, countries need to accurately estimate the cost of their national health strategies and health sector plans. In Angola, the HFG project worked closely with the Ministry of Health to complete the costing …
How Does Malaria Control Impact the Health System?
November 25, 2013An HFG study in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene finds that facility-level resources were freed up as malaria was controlled at two hospitals in Zambia, potentially making those resources available for addressing other disease …
Report Analyzes Africa’s Health Financing Outlook
September 6, 2013Expected changes in external assistance as percentage of THE, under economic growth and Abuja commitment, 2010 and 2020. The first decade of the new millennium brought high-level advocacy to mobilize more funding for health coupled with unprecedented …
Mobile Money Expands Financial Access to Health Services
September 6, 2013The term mobile money describes financial transactions that are conducted using a mobile phone where value is stored virtually (e-money) in an account associated with a SIM card. Such transactions are compatible with basic phones and do not require I …
