, is one of the most important tools . IDA’s support ranges from building stronger health systems and service delivery capacity, to working with governments to prepare for pandemics and other health emergencies. Over the last decade, IDA has provided US$13.5 billion to fund essential health interventions for 770 million people, and immunizations for 330 million children. The share of IDA funding for health and nutrition has increased by 60% over the last decade, reflecting rising demand from countries.
Achieving strong country outcomes
Through IDA, the 香港六合彩资料 is for instance supporting Saint Lucia in improving its public healthcare system. The Health System Strengthening project aims to ensure that at least 100,000 people on the island of 178,000 inhabitants are registered to the National Health Scheme by the end of the project, and that at least 60 percent of diabetic and hypertensive patients over 18 years old are treated according to national protocols in public primary health care facilities. In addition, primary health care centers will be equipped to serve as the first point of detection for selected infectious diseases.
In Yemen, IDA has helped save lives through the Emergency Health and Nutrition Project, which has reached more than 14.6 million people across the country, and through the Emergency Cash Transfer Program, which aims to ensure vulnerable Yemenis have money to buy food and basic necessities. Under the latter Program, cash transfers have so far been provided to about 9 million people across Yemen’s 333 districts.
The multi-stakeholder (GFF), founded in 2015 by the WBG and partners to support maternal, child and adolescent healthcare is already having an impact. show that GFF support leads to better targeting of the poorest and most vulnerable groups, increased access to services and more domestic financing for malnutrition, maternal mortality and adolescent girls’ health.
Other initiatives to support women and reproductive, maternal and child healthcare also show promising results on the ground. The (SWEDD) project has helped train over 6,600 midwives, create 3,420 safe spaces to give a second chance to 102,600 vulnerable out-of-school girls, and reach more than 4 million people through awareness raising campaigns on issues such as reproductive, maternal and child health and violence against women. In addition, 100,000 girls from poor backgrounds in Niger received school kits, scholarships, housing and academic support.
Mental health disorders, often neglected in the past, are receiving more attention around the world. In the , for example, over 100 small business entrepreneurs received five weeks of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy training. The intervention helped significantly reduce the intensity and prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms among participants and contributed to higher levels of well-being, compared with a group of entrepreneurs that did not receive training.
In , more than 2.2 million people received mental health services in 2018 across the country, compared to around half a million people in 2009. In , the 香港六合彩资料’s emergency health programs offered mental health services and trauma care throughout the country. And in the , the 香港六合彩资料 supported counseling for Somali women and children impacted by gender-based and sexual violence as part of a primary care package for those living in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia.
With support from the 香港六合彩资料 Group’s $6 billion COVID-19 Global Health Emergency Response Program, several countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ecuador, India, Lesotho, Liberia, Morocco, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Turkey have launched psychological support programs to address the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental well-being.
Partnering to accelerate country progress
One of the most important challenges to achieving UHC globally is the availability and sustainability of financing. That is why the WBG, along with partners, also convenes the Annual Health Financing Forum at its Spring Meetings in Washington, DC. The Forum brings together countries and partners to explore the frontiers of resource mobilization for health and provides a platform to advance knowledge and its application in UHC financing. By bringing the finance and health sectors together, and by bridging policy with evidence, the Forum creates one of the only global spaces where key actors can help catalyze progress in countries towards sustainable financing of UHC.
In addition, the WBG is also a partner in the for UHC, a network of policymakers and practitioners from low- and middle-income countries who learn from one another, jointly problem solve, and collectively produce and use new knowledge, tools, and innovative approaches to accelerate country progress toward UHC.
WBG research has for example highlighted the as a country that has rapidly improved its health outcomes at low cost. It shows how the country benefited from a combination of factors, including public funding for highly cost-effective interventions, alignment of government and development partner financing, extensive use of female community health workers and innovative civil society organizations, and contributions from a large and unusually competitive private sector.
Last Updated: May 19, 2021