Read about project activities in Year 2 to increase the use of priority population, health, and nutrition services, especially by the disadvantaged through improvements in health financing, governance, operations, and capacity building.

Senior experts from development agencies and think tanks located in the Washington area met on November 5, 2008 for a roundtable discussion on "Innovations for Health Financing in Sub-Saharan Africa."

USAID's Global Development Commons, an initiative that seeks to promote innovation within USAID and the greater development community to improve the accessibilility and affordability of information and knowledge, features Health Systems 20/20 GIS work in Yemen.

This policy brief focuses on the transition from emergency assistance and relief to strengthening the health system for the long term, and the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and how they can help fragile states to rehabilitate their health systems.

African leaders meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, in April 2001, signed a declaration mandating that health budgets should constitute a minimum of 15% of national budgets. The Namibian Minister of Health, Dr. Richard Kamwi, recently informed participants at a Health Sector Stakeholders meeting about Namibia's progress in meeting this goal. The meeting was held on October 29, 2008, in Namibia.

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.

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.

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.