Swaziland: Entry-to-Practice Competencies for Nurses to Improve HIV, TB Services
April 20, 2015With the world’s highest prevalence of HIV (26 percent) and TB/HIV co-infection (80 percent of tuberculosis patients have HIV), Swaziland has a critical need for a well-trained and sustainable workforce of medical professionals. Official launch of th …
Task-Sharing for Better HIV Care and Treatment in Côte d’Ivoire
April 16, 2015In Côte d’Ivoire, many of the country’s frontline, rural health facilities do not have a doctor present to care for patients, particularly those with HIV and AIDS. Instead, paramedical staff ‒ nurses, midwives and nursing auxiliaries‒account for 50 p …
Peru: A Comprehensive Health Policy to Protect the Most Vulnerable
April 16, 2015From left to right: Arturo Granados, General Director of the Office for Decentralization; Rocío Espino, Advisor to the Vice-ministerial Office; Amanda Glassman, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in the US; Dalia Suarez, Head of the M …
Save the Date: Financing Health Care in Haiti
April 16, 2015On April 28 and 29, Haiti’s Ministry of Health will host a high-level conference to build commitment and momentum to defining a health financing strategy for the nation. The conference, “Access to health care for all in Haiti: Challenges and perspect …
Data Drives Decisions to Increase Number of Health Workers in Swaziland
April 15, 2015Swaziland has a shortage of health workers for priority health services, particularly HIV and AIDS. This country of approximately one million citizens has the highest HIV prevalence in the world – 26 percent. At the same time, Swaziland has fewer tha …
Perú: un Seguro Integral de Salud que protege a los más vulnerables
April 10, 2015En el marco del curso de USAID sobre el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de salud y la implementación de la Cobertura Sanitaria Universal que tuvo lugar en Panamá en el mes de marzo y al que asistieron representantes de varios países de Latinoamérica …
La reforma de salud de El Salvador reduce los índices de mortalidad materna
April 10, 2015Marzo 2015 — La semana pasada en Panamá, USAID patrocinó un curso al que asistieron más de 40 delegados de ministerios de salud y finanzas de Guatemala, Guyana, Haití, Honduras, El Salvador, Perú y República Dominicana para aprender sobre el fortale …
Ghana Health Insurance Officials Hone Monitoring and Evaluation Skills
April 10, 2015HFG’s Josef Tayag facilitates a group activity. Over the past decade, Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has grown from a handful of community-based health insurance schemes into a formal scheme covering over 9.8 million people (more tha …
Recap and Resources: Latin America and Caribbean Economics and Health Financing Course
April 10, 2015From March 10-13, 2015, HFG hosted the World Bank Institute’s “Flagship Course on Economics and Health Financing for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)” with regional partner Bitrán y Asociados in Panama City, Panama. Funded by USAID’s Bureau for …
Kyrgyzstan Modernizes TB Hospital Financing
March 27, 2015The 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 …
