Countries are increasingly defining health benefits packages (HBPs) as a way of progressing towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Resources for health are commonly constrained, so it is imperative to...
Eswatini achieved a 44 percent decrease in new HIV infections from 2014 to 2019 through substantial scale-up of testing and treatment. However, it still has one of the highest rates of HIV incidence in...
Rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of male engagement interventions, particularly on how these interventions impact relationship power dynamics and women's decision-making, remains limited. This study...
Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government.Despite substantial reduction over the last decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high; with 48 percent...
Despite a non-decreasing HIV epidemic, international donors are soon expected to withdraw funding from Kazakhstan. Here the authors analyze how allocative, implementation, and technical efficiencies could...
Timor-Leste built its health workforce up from extremely low levels after its war of independence, with the assistance of Cuban training, but faces challenges as the first cohorts of doctors will shortly...
Experience and emerging research from Africa reaffirms unprotected sex work to be a key driver of sexual transmission in different contexts and regardless of stage or classification of HIV epidemic. Decades...
Pursuit of the triple bottom line of economic, community and ecological sustainability has increased the complexity of fishery management; fisheries assessments require new types of data and analysis to...
The HIV epidemic in Nigeria is complex with diverse factors driving the epidemic. Accordingly, Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS is coordinating a large-scale initiative to conduct HIV...
A pilot eliminating user fees associated with delivery at the point of services was introduced in two districts of Laos in March 2009. Following two years of implementation, an evaluation was conducted...
Input-output analysis has been proven to be a powerful instrument for estimating embodied (direct plus indirect) energy usage through economic sectors. Using 9 economic input-output tables of years 1987...
Sex workers have endured a high burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in and across HIV epidemics. A comprehensive, community empowerment-based HIV prevention intervention emphasizes sex...
The authors assessed the burden of cancer on households’ out-of-pocket health spending, non-medical consumption, workforce participation, and debt and asset sales using data from a nationally representative...
Marine reserves are an effective tool for protecting biodiversity locally, with potential economic benefits including enhancement of local fisheries, increased tourism, and maintenance of ecosystem services...
The authors set out to estimate, for the three geographical regions with the highest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence, (sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the Caribbean, and the Greater Mekong sub-region...
Behavior change communication (BCC) interventions, while still a necessary component of HIV prevention, have not on their own been shown to be sufficient to stem the tide of the epidemic. The shortcomings...