Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Activities at USAID - October 2010 [PDF 1.4MB]
With this report, USAID provides its final update on the Agency’s 2006–2010 health research strategy for using research funds to stimulate the development and introduction of key products. Significant progress has been made in many areas, influencing policies and programming on the ground in real time.
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Measuring the Impact of Health Systems Strengthening: A Review of the Literature [PDF, 1.2MB]
This literature review summarizes current efforts in measuring health system performance and highlights the indicators and performance benchmarks most frequently used by the global community. The review also aims to serve as a resource for health system experts working on building consensus around a core set of indicators for monitoring and evaluating health system performance.
Health Systems Report to Congress: Sustaining Health Gains, Building Systems - October 2009 [PDF, 3.2MB]
Strengthening the health systems of developing countries is a central goal of USAID health programming. Achieving this goal is critical to sustaining improvements in outcomes in health- or disease-specific areas and is a significant factor in supporting overall development in partner countries. Learn more