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CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Zambia has been steadily working towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since the 1990s. Zambia's UHC ambition rests primarily on the delivery of two Health Benefits Packages (HBPs): the National Health Care Package (NHCP) and the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) Ben...
POLICY PAPERS
January 13, 2021
As low- and middle-income countries advance towards universal health coverage (UHC), the family planning community increasingly recognizes that inclusion within health benefits packages (HBP)—a cornerstone of UHC policy—may be essential for the sustainability of family planning financing.
Blog Post
September 21, 2020
Historically, donors and multilateral organisations have channelled funding in health through vertical disease programs, typically focussed on one disease area and a set of short- and medium-term objectives. We, and others, have argued that the “convergence” of verticals into a set of essential...
Blog Post
November 12, 2019
Last month, Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. Here’s a quick introduction to almost all of Banerjee’s publications. The range of topics is breathtaking, from land reform to corruption to microcredit to inter...
Blog Post
October 29, 2019
Two weeks ago, Esther Duflo won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences<, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” In the blog post below, you’ll find a quick introduction to more than a hundred of ...
Blog Post
January 25, 2019
Last fall, policymakers gathered in Astana, Kazakhstan to renew their commitment to primary health care (PHC). The gathering marked the 40th anniversary of the landmark Declaration of Alma-Ata, which enshrined health as a basic human right and paved the way for global recognition of PHC as a fundame...