Director General of Ministry of Health- Somalia @Drguledabdijalil met with The GFF head at the 7th Health Financing Forum. He expressed gratitude for GFF's efforts in developing Somalia's health sector and discussed bilateral issues to improve Somali healthcare.

This is a unique opportunity for all of us coming together around Nigeria Now: the GFF & World Bank are committed to supporting Nigeria’s leadership on this ambitious & important effort for a healthier population.

Juan Pablo Uribe, Global Director for Health Nutrition &

DAY 1 @ #JointLearningAgenda Workshop

GFF #healthfinancing lead Cicely Thomas on the role of #civilsociety in securing domestic resources and ensuring equitable access to health care for women, children and youth:

GFF Head of Secretariat Luc Laviolette shares some of the key takeaways from this year’s annual report, looking at what countries have achieved with support from the GFF partnership and what it will take to fulfill the promise for better health.
#InvestInWomen #DeliverTheFuture

Significant new research that shifts measurement from questions of coverage to question of rights fulfilled. Why measure mCPR if aim is to fulfill fertility management preferences?

iussp.org/en/assessing-a…

benbellows.bsky.social raised an important question: Why measure mCPR? FP field has been searching for an indicator to reflect reproductive health, rights and justice. However, measurement of
fertility preferences achieved and rights achieved does not reflect status at one point in time…

Our Annual Report reveals that even amid global crises affecting health, the GFF partner countries are reaching millions of women, children, and adolescents with better health services.

#DeliverTheFuture #InvestInHealth #IWD2024

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Less than 5% of women in low-income and middle-income countries are ever screened for cervical cancer, hampering elimination goals.

john zarocostas reports on renewed calls to scale-up cervical cancer screening: hubs.li/Q02mT1KT0

New Interview: I talked to the British doctor Deborah Harrington, who recently spent two weeks at a hospital in Gaza, about what the war has meant for maternal care and women’s health. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

Big variation in health outcomes at a given level of spending implies the potential for large gains in health from more efficient spending (not less spending).

blogs.iadb.org/salud/es/es-po…

@SBauhoff & Goyeneche explore how big those gains could be in Latin America & the Caribbean.

Great paper from West Africa on how to improve maternal mortality - replace private health financing with public financing bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

The House of People’s Representatives of #Ethiopia has approved appointment of Dr. Mekdes Daba as Minister of Health

*Job opportunity* Great opportunity to advance implementation research on adolescent health and wellbeing at the World Bank and The GFF.
worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersite…

Increases in visas for nurses from the Philippines caused a brain gain, rather than brain drain, of nurses. In the January 2024 issue, by Caroline Theoharides (Caroline Theoharides), Paolo Abarcar (@pabarcar)
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A new blog with a mildly worrying new fact from Brian Webster Victoria Fan & me:

For low-income countries, official estimates of vaccination coverage have become systematically biased toward optimism.

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A rousing performance of 'Fairytale of New York' was given by Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill at the funeral of Shane MacGowan in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. The performance was greeted by cheers inside and outside the church | rte.ie/b/1420857

'A 1% increase in the total [social protection] coverage was associated with a reduction of 0.19% ... in suicide rates.' link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thank you to Mamta Murthi and The GFF for this important convening. USAID's partnership with the GFF is a critical step in leveraging financing resources that can strengthen maternal and child health and primary health care systems around the world.

World’s population by Latitude and Longitude (2000)

Malaria is spreading to new communities in Kenya. The reason: climate change. 'The public health system is not prepared for this resurgence,' Dr Githinji Gitahi, MBS Amref Health Africa Read more from Larry Madowo: msn.com/en-us/news/oth…