Topics

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Other Health Outcomes
Capacity building activities under this component are aimed at achieving health outcomes especially among the poor and marginalized groups of society. Emphasis is placed on meeting the MDGs for health as well as ensuring equitable access to health services. Capacity building activities under this component cover the following areas: 

• Accelerating Progress towards Health MDGS and other Health Outcomes
• Reproductive Health, Poverty Reduction and System Reform
• Gender Health and Poverty and Health Outcomes and the Poor

Health Systems and Health Economics
In order to improve the efficiency of health delivery systems while at the same time ensuring that the poor and marginalized groups have access (equity), adequate and critical attention is needed for policy design, institutional arrangements, and the sustainability and fairness of financial mechanisms. This component of the Health and AIDS Program addresses policy design and the basics of health economics. Capacity building activities under this component comprise:

• The Flagship Program (Building Capacity for Reform and Sustainable Financing)
• Private-Private Partnership (expanding system reach through the private sector)
• Addressing Human Resources for Health (strengthening system capacity)
• Web-based basics courses on Health Economics and Finance