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 Mobile money enables funds to be deposited, transferred, and withdrawn electronically through mobile phone accounts.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 …
HFG Supports New Health Systems Research Society
September 6, 2013As more countries strive to expand access to quality health care, there is a growing need for evidence, research, and knowledge on how best to mobilize and organize health systems’ inputs to achieve universal health coverage. Recently, HFG helped to …
Improved Database Compiles Country Health Systems Data
September 6, 2013Learn more about a country’s health system data by using the updated and re-designed Health Systems Database. This easy-to-use web-based tool compiles and analyzes country health system data from multiple sources, provides visualization options, and …
Nigerians Scale Up Smartphones to Diagnose, Treat TB
September 3, 2013In Nigeria, the HFG project is supporting the scale up of smartphones to accurately diagnose and treat tuberculosis (TB). Health workers at more than 500 facilities are using smartphones, as well as androids, as a result of a successful pilot program …
