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 …
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 …
