Twelve multilateral health and development organizations have signed on to a joint Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (the Global Action Plan). The Global Action Plan includes a call for signatory organizations to align efforts to strengthen the provision of global...

The Global Health 2035 report shows that there is tremendous potential to achieve dramatic gains in global health over the next 20 years, particularly with regards to the G7's priorities of eliminating NTDs, preparing effectively for pandemics, and tackling AMR. These challenges require urgent...

Vaccine security and self-sufficiency have received increased global attention in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as low- and middle-income countries were heavily dependent on high-income countries (HICs) and international organizations for vaccine supply, resulting in global competition for...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, has quickly spread worldwide. On January 30, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and advised all governments to prepare for transmission in their countries. On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared that...

In the coming years, over a dozen middle-income countries (MICs) are likely to transition from multilateral concessional assistance, including assistance from the International Development Association (IDA) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi). The cohort of upcoming graduates, which includes...

India is a lower-middle-income country (LMIC) with 21% of its population living below the international poverty line. Yet, its government health expenditure in 2016 was only 1.17% of its ross domestic product (GDP), a share that is even lower than the average for low-income countries. India also...

Strategic purchasing (SP) for health is an important policy lever to influence health service provision and accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). The effectiveness of SP in reaching UHC goals is limited if there is poor coordination and fragmentation between schemes. We...

Kenya has progressed towards implementing and institutionalizing strategic health purchasing (SHP) practices as a key strategy to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, multiple challenges are faced such as fragmentation of pooling arrangements, inadequate health funding, rigid...

This study explored strategic purchasing of health services in Sierra Leone. Purchasing of healthservices in Sierra Leone is at a formative stage. Our study identified nine such purchasing schemes, which can be grouped into five major categories of purchasers: a) the ministry of health and...

This study aimed to identify lessons on strategic purchasing (SP) reforms in the health sector in Cameroon, with a specific focus on performance-based financing and the voucher system. Specifically, we aimed to identify: (i) current progress, challenges, and opportunities related to the...