The AIDS crisis in Africa and elsewhere compels us to design appropriate assistance policies for households experience a death. Policies should take into account and strengthen existing household coping strategies, rather than duplicate or undermine them. The authors investigate the nature of...

Contracting is increasingly recommended to developing countries as a way of improving the efficiency of the health sector. However, empirical evidence regarding its effectiveness in this respect is almost completely absent. In Zimbabwe, a long standing contract exists between the Ministry of...

The endemic nature of HIV|AIDS in Africa has led to substantial activity to intensify action in SSA over the past two years. There has been both a reallocation of resources towards HIV|AIDS and wide scale efforts at mobilizing additional resources to scale up HIV|AIDS prevention and care...

The increasing privatization of health care provision has been a central element of health sector reform in many countries. Regulation is often seen as a potential response to address the many problems which arise in the private production, financing and delivery of health services. It is seen...