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It’s tough being a woman in South Sudan. A woman has little economic mobility, may be forced into marriage by the age of 14, and, should she become pregnant, she has a one in seven chance of dying due to pregnancy-related causes. As South Soudan edges towards war with Sudan, life for women will likely get more difficult. Joy Mukaire of the Christian Health Association of Sudan (CHAS), a Health Systems 20/20 collaborator, tells us how despite the setbacks she’s helping other women access quality health care.

Health Systems 20/20 is pleased to release the eighth in the Better Health Systems – Strategies that Work series. This new brief focuses on USAID’s Health Systems Assessment Approach (HSAA), which has been widely used in the developing world to diagnose health systems performance.

We sit down with Health Systems 20/20 Health Financing expert Yann Derriennic to discuss the impact of removing user fees for malaria services for children under five in Africa.

In May 2012, the University of Nairobi will premiere a Master of Science in Health Economics and Policy. Dr. Urbanus Kioko, an economics professor at the university, tells us about the new curriculum developed in partnership with Health Systems 20/20.

Health Systems 20/20 is pleased to release the seventh in the Better Health Systems – Strategies that Work series. This brief focuses on the critical role capacity building plays in strengthening health systems worldwide, especially for the organizations that support and make up a health system.

What have we learned about performance-based incentives (PBI) for maternal health? Rena Eichler, co-author of Performance Incentives for Improved Maternal Health: Taking Stock of Current Programs and Future Potentials, tells us how the field has evolved and what’s next.

We sit down with a Liberia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) insider and longtime Health Systems 20/20 partner to discuss the country’s most pressing health issues.

Health Systems 20/20 is pleased to release the sixth in the Better Health Systems – Strategies that Work series. This brief focuses on how Health Systems 20/20 has furthered NHA institutionalization in more than a dozen countries.

On March 24, Health Systems 20/20 joins the Stop TB Partnership, WHO, and other concerned organizations calling for the eradication of tuberculosis. The annual event commemorates Dr. Robert Koch’s discovery of the bacillus that causes TB in 1882.

Join us March 6 for the fourth presentation of the Better Health Systems: Strategies that Work presentation series at the Global Health Council. More...

Health Systems 20/20 is pleased to release the fifth in the Better Health Systems – Strategies that Work series. This issue focuses on scaling up health insurance coverage across Africa. More...

In February, Health Systems 20/20 staff participated in the Joint International Monitoring Mission (JIMM) for the national TB program in Nigeria. Listen to training coordinator Dr. Mustapha Gidado from Nigeria's National TB and Leprosy Training Centre explain how the review will improve TB services in Nigeria.

President Thomas Boni Yayi launched a landmark universal health insurance policy in Benin that will increase access to lifesaving health care for people in a country where 37 percent of the population lives in poverty.  Health Systems 20/20 joins partners in advising on the implementation strategy of the new plan, Régime d’assurance maladie universelle (RAMU).

To increase harmonization of interventions Nigeria has united national strategies for TB and leprosy control into one plan, the National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control 2010-2015. Health Systems 20/20, together with other partners, participated in the review of the plan, which seeks to reach international TB benchmarks set by Stop TB Partnership and the Millennium Development Goals.

Health Systems 20/20 is pleased to release the fourth in the Better Health Systems – Strategies that Work series. Since signing the peace accord in 2003, Liberia's government has made tremendous progress in rebuilding the health system. An ongoing challenge for the country, however, has been to shift from providing humanitarian relief to offering affordable, quality health care. This issue describes the development of Liberia’s new health financing policy.