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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...