Results-Based financing in Zimbabwe: Achieving Results for Women’s and Children’s Health

Results-Based Financing has become widely known among people across Zimbabwe. Despite the challenging setting, this approach has quickly contributed to better health services.

The program, which is funded by the World Bank’s multi-donor Health Results Innovation Trust Fund at the request of the government, provides subsidies to health clinics and hospitals based on their performance in delivering a package of free health services to pregnant women and children under five.

Link to video short: http://www.rbfhealth.org/resource/results-based-financing-zimbabwe-achieving-results-women%E2%80%99s-and-children%E2%80%99s-health-short

New progress in voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC)

12 July, 2016 – In the lead-up to the AIDS 2016 conference, WHO issued a new progress brief on country efforts to scale up voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention. The brief shows that 11.7 million men stepped up for circumcision as a prevention option by the end of 2015, demonstrating this public health surgical intervention is feasible and can be successful in target countries. The progress contributes to 335,000 HIV infections averted through 2025.

 

Read the full brief here

Increase in number of countries adopting HIV self-testing policies

20 July 2016 – UNITAID and the World Health Organization (WHO) today released the second edition of the landscape report on HIV Self-testing which shows that 16 countries have adopted HIV self-testing policies, while many others are currently developing them. Released at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, the report summarizes latest technologies for HIV self-testing, including estimates for demand, supply, and pricing.

 

Find report here

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