Background Continued investment, especially from domestic financing, is needed for
Ethiopia to achieve universal health coverage and a sustainable health system over time …

Background Provision of up-to-date cost information is crucial for not only addressing
knowledge gap on the cost of essential health services (EHS) but also budgeting, allocating …

Introduction The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has made significant progress in expanding
access to primary health care (PHC) over the past 15 years. However, achieving national …

Many global health institutions, including the World Health Organization, consider primary
health care as the path towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, there …

Ethiopia's recent improvements in health outcomes benefited from the large increase in
development assistance for health received in recent years, most of which supported its …

Abstract Background The Ethiopian health care system is under tremendous reform. One of
the issues high on the agenda is health care financing. In an effort to protect citizens from …

Introduction The availability of quality primary health care (PHC) services in Nigeria is
limited. The PHC system faces significant challenges and the improvement and expansion …

Background High burden of healthcare expenditure precludes the poor from access to
quality healthcare services. In Ethiopia, a significant proportion of the population has faced …

Background Ethiopia launched the Health Extension Program (HEP) in 2004, aimed at
ensuring equitable community-level healthcare services through Health Extension Workers …

Background Despite improvements in a number of health outcome indicators partly due to
the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Ghana is unlikely to attain all its health …