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HIV testing services
December 2016
Scaling Up Multi-Sectoral Efforts to Establish a Strong Nutrition Foundation for Uganda’s Development
On the road to ending TB
Highlights from the 30 highest TB burden countries
TB policies in 29 Countries
A survey of prevention, testing and treatment policies and practices
front cover © Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, D.C., 2017
Technical and operational ‘how-to’: practical considerations
Report of the Global Thematic Consultation on Population Dynamics
Second Edition
Good Policy and Practice in HIV & AIDS and Education
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book -4
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book - 4
HTC COUNTRY REPORT | LESOTHO
The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection, and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagn...ostics are highly accurate, cost-effective, reduce the time to treatment initiation, and impact patient-important outcomes.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a double shock - health and economic. As of March 1, 2021, COVID-19 has cost more than 2.5 million lives and triggered an economic recession surpassing any economic downturn since World War II.
Part I of this paper explores the impact of this current macro-fisc...al outlook on the three primary sources of health spending. Drawing on experiences from previous economic crises, scenario analyses suggest a fall in government per capita spending on health in 2021 and 2022 unless governments make bold choices to increase the share of health in general government spending.
Part II of the paper discusses policy options to meet the spending needs in health. These options encompass strategies to make fiscal adjustments work and channel funds where they are most needed, as well as policies to stabilize the balance sheets of social health insurance (SHI) schemes. The paper explains how the health sector can play an active role in expanding fiscal space, contributing to tax reforms, most importantly pro-health taxes, and mobilizing and absorbing external financing, including debt relief.
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