HFG: Accelerating Country Progress towards UHC
December 11, 2014USAID’s HFG Project is working with partners around the world to protect families from catastrophic health care costs, expand access to priority services – such as maternal and child health care and HIV services, and ensure equitable population cover …
Nigeria Workshop: Scaling up Universal Health Coverage
December 4, 2014This week the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health, USAID, and the HFG Project are delivering a Healthcare Financing Capacity-Building Workshop for health officials from around Nigeria. The impetus was a Presidential Summit held in Abuja in March 2014 …
Leading Burundi’s HIV/AIDS Response
November 25, 2014Dr. Hilaire Ninteretse addresses participants at the national level supervision-strengthening workshop. Burundi’s National HIV/AIDS Program, Programme de la Lutte Contre le SIDA et les Infections Sexuellement Transmissibles or PNLS was created in 201 …
Health Systems 20/20 Website Retires
November 21, 2014USAID’s Health Systems 20/20 Project website was retired in December, 2014. The Health Systems 20/20 project was the predecessor to the Health Finance and Governance Project. Health Systems 20/20 documents are available via the USAID Development Expe …
Ghana Reviews Insurance Benefits Package
November 10, 2014Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has captured the attention of the global health community as one of the most ambitious plans for universal health coverage (UHC) in Africa. For more than a decade, NHIS has offered insurance benefits to …
Developing Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Skills in Botswana
October 23, 2014To increase the efficiency and quality of health services, the Government of Botswana has launched an ambitious plan to expand public-private partnerships in the health system. As part of these reforms, the Ministry of Health has started to outsource …
Swaziland Nursing Council Inaugurates New Office
October 15, 2014In Swaziland, nurses and midwives are at the frontline of caring for their communities, forming a critical cadre in tackling the country’s health challenges, such as the tuberculosis and HIV and AIDS epidemics. As the country’s leading organization f …
Highlights from Cape Town | Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
October 2, 2014Over 1,700 participants from 90+ countries descended upon Cape Town last week for the Health Systems Global Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. The HFG team was busy with several staff presenting at the Symposium and pre-Symposium sate …
HFG at #HSR2014 | Pre-Symposium
September 29, 2014See what the HFG Project is up to in Cape Town! HFG is excited to be in Cape Town, South Africa, for the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. Learn more about our sessions from the interactive Storify below. Pre-Symposium sessions on Se …
What is Mobile Microinsurance?
September 24, 2014Mobile healthcare in Africa: serving populations, saving lives. WHO, 2014. The latest installment of the HFG Project’s Mobile Money Newsletter highlights mobile microinsurance in the context of health. Mobile microinsurance is broadly defined as any …
