Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand...

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...

Although strategic purchasing is increasingly advocated as one of the solutions for improving the performance of the health system, purchasing in Senegal has been mostly passive. Some active purchasing mechanisms have been recently introduced as part of the country’s health financing strategy...

Strategic purchasing of health services has been identified as one of the critical components for countries to progress towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC). Due to decentralized governance, there are multiple purchasers in Nigeria, which has led to fragmentation, lack of...

Sri Lanka is well-recognized in terms of the progress made on several social indicators, including its health achievements. The country has made significant progress in health outcomes, including increased life expectancy, gains in maternal and child health outcomes, and elimination of major...