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Thousands of leading experts, researchers, and practitioners came together at the American Public Health Association's 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 26-29, 2008, in San Diego, California, to share their research, learn from each other, and explore new strategies for addressing a wide range of critical public health issues.

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Health Systems 20/20 and the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative have teamed up to develop a toolkit of materials to help Global Fund applicants better understand how they can use Round 9 of the Global Fund to strengthen their countries’ health systems as well as what resources are available to support them in doing so.

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USAID's flagship health systems strengthening project, Health Systems 20/20, was invited to share their experience with the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) related to building health systems at the country level.

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Presenting at the USAID and George Washington University School of Public Health’s Mini-U on September 12 were Health Systems 20/20 staff Derick Brinkerhoff on civil society participation in health governance, and Catherine Connor and Amy Taye leading a hands-on introduction to the Health Systems Assessment Approach.

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Sponsored by USAID, AusAID, the Center for Global Development, Norad and the World Bank, this regional workshop welcomes 16 teams of three “stakeholders” from countries in Asia to learn about the Pay for Performance (P4P) approach to health system strengthening.

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Health Systems 20/20 HIV/AIDS technical team leader Dr. Gilbert Kombe was recently interviewed by the World Today while attending the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. The BBC’s award-winning international news and current affairs program reaches millions of listeners around the world. To listen to the audio clip of Dr. Kombe’s interview, please follow the link provided below.

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Rwanda, a small country in the sub-Saharan Africa region and one of the poorest countries in the world, is nevertheless a leader in doing National Health Accounts (NHA) estimations. The full report that accompanies this executive summary describes Rwanda’s fifth general NHA estimation (1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006).

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With almost all countries developing or implementing some form of decentralization, health initiatives targeting control of specific diseases, as well as projects that work on broader health systems restructuring, will be influenced by these decentralization efforts.

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Malaria control programs throughout Africa, including the 15 focus countries of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), have seen a tremendous increase in funding and activities over the past few years.

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Mutual health organizations (MHOs) are voluntary membership organizations providing health insurance services to their members. MHOs aim to increase access to health care by reducing out-of-pocket payments faced by households. Health Systems 20/20 and Abt staff members Slavea Chankova, Sara Sulzbach, and François Diop co-authored an article entitled "Impact of Mutual Health Organizations: Evidence from West Africa" recently published in Health Policy and Planning. More...

The Dominican Republic, site of the first Latin American and Caribbean National Health Accounts (LACNHA) Network workshop held ten years ago, hosted a seminar April 23-26, 2008 in Bayaibe to share regional experiences on NHA and subaccount work, foster the methodological standardization for regional NHA comparability, and reactivate the LACNHA Network. More...

Working directly with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Health Systems 20/20 has successfully launched National Health Accounts (NHA) in Liberia. NHA is a tool being used today in more than 50 low- and middle-income countries to measure total public and private national health expenditures. Click here to read more about our work in Liberia.

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A policy brief issued by Health Systems 20/20 on the threat that weak governance poses to the allocation of health resources in the developing world.

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The Yemeni Midwives Association (YMA) has established itself – and its nearly 1,000 members – as a key player in supporting the midwife profession and enabling midwives to improve delivery of reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) services to reduce high maternal and child mortality and morbidity. The Association is also crucial in changing health outcomes for women by providing them with the health care they want.

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In a country where 70% of women are illiterate and culturally bound to the home, health information is passed from older females to younger ones, and ideas such as the “evil eye” as the cause of most illnesses is generally accepted. Still, women are eager to learn how to improve the health of their families and communities.

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