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Blog Post
February 24, 2022
Last week, the central bank of Chile became the 9th member of the Latin American Reserve Fund (known by its Spanish acronym, FLAR), Latin America’s regional lender of last resort. This is great news for the pursuit of financial and economic stability in the region. Here is why.
Blog Post
February 16, 2022
One of the most prestigious HTA agencies is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England, which has gained its reputation through highly vetted, transparent, and robust processes and recommendations. For LMICs that don’t have the capacity and/or the expertise to generate t...
Blog Post
February 03, 2022
As of October 5, 2021, 15 African countries ratified the African Medicines Agency (AMA) treaty, entering into force the second specialized health agency of the African Union. The treaty struggled to get sufficient support for more than a decade after AMA was conceptualized at the 60th World Health O...
Blog Post
January 31, 2022
The Omicron variant has rapidly become the dominant variant of COVID-19, with many low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) observing a rapid increase in cases. In this blog we argue that protecting healthcare workers, and health systems in general, is now an even higher priority. We prop...
Blog Post
January 12, 2022
In November, we co-hosted an online event with USAID MTaPS and heard from experts in LMIC national regulatory authorities, donor agencies, and academia on supporting regulators and streamlining registration processes to improve the availability of quality assured medicines around the world. In this ...