Welcome to Health Systems 20/20, USAID’s global health project working to strengthen health systems by using an integrated approach to address the financing, governance, operational, and capacity constraints to the use of life-saving priority health services. Read more in the project brief.
The Health Systems 20/20 project is a Leader With Associates cooperative agreement for 2006–2011 through USAID’s Health Systems Division within the Global Health Bureau.
Health Systems 20/20 at 136th Annual APHA Meeting
Thousands of leading experts, researchers, and practitioners came together at the American Public Health Association's 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 26-29, 2008, in San Diego, California, to share their research, learn from each other, and explore new strategies for addressing a wide range of critical public health issues.
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New Toolkit!
Using Round 9 of the Global Fund for Health Systems Strengthening
Health Systems 20/20 and the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative have teamed up to develop a toolkit of materials to help Global Fund applicants better understand how they can use Round 9 of the Global Fund to strengthen their countries’ health systems as well as what resources are available to support them in doing so.
More...Why Strengthening Health Systems Matters
USAID's flagship health systems strengthening project, Health Systems 20/20, was invited to share their experience with the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) related to building health systems at the country level.
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Health Systems Innovations at Mini-University
Presenting at the USAID and George Washington University School of Public Health’s Mini-U on September 12 were Health Systems 20/20 staff Derick Brinkerhoff on civil society participation in health governance, and Catherine Connor and Amy Taye leading a hands-on introduction to the Health Systems Assessment Approach.
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Asia Pay for Performance Workshop, January 19-23, 2009, Gujarat, India
Sponsored by USAID, AusAID, the Center for Global Development, Norad and the World Bank, this regional workshop welcomes 16 teams of three “stakeholders” from countries in Asia to learn about the Pay for Performance (P4P) approach to health system strengthening.
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Health Systems 20/20's Dr. Gilbert Kombe Discusses HIV/AIDS Systems on BBC
Health Systems 20/20 HIV/AIDS technical team leader Dr. Gilbert Kombe was recently interviewed by the World Today while attending the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. The BBC’s award-winning international news and current affairs program reaches millions of listeners around the world. To listen to the audio clip of Dr. Kombe’s interview, please follow the link provided below.
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Article on Impact of Mutual Health Organizations in West Africa Published in Health Policy and Planning
New Brief!
Decentralization and Governance
With almost all countries developing or implementing some form of decentralization, health initiatives targeting control of specific diseases, as well as projects that work on broader health systems restructuring, will be influenced by these decentralization efforts.
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New Tool!
Guidelines for Assessing the Management and Organizational Capacity of National Malaria Control Programs
Malaria control programs throughout Africa, including the 15 focus countries of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), have seen a tremendous increase in funding and activities over the past few years.
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National Health Accounts, Rwanda 2006: With HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Reproductive Health Subaccounts
Rwanda, a small country in the sub-Saharan Africa region and one of the poorest countries in the world, is nevertheless a leader in doing National Health Accounts (NHA) estimations. The full report that accompanies this executive summary describes Rwanda’s fifth general NHA estimation (1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006).
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