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Htetnically Speaking
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Formerly a cautious optimist. Currently a hopeful cynic.
Trained in Public Health.
Posting about health financing, health systems and primary health care.
(Views are my own. Reposts not endorsement.)
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When Global Health Financing Frameworks Narrow African Experts’ Imagination
Family Transfers, Diaspora Remittances, Out-of-Pocket Payments, and the Epistemic Limits of Global Health For years, I worked on health financing in Africa. For years, I—like many Africans on the cont...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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Public Health in 2025: Year in Review | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Many of this year’s biggest stories marked the beginning of—or turning points for—important public health issues.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Ten humanitarian trends to keep an eye on in 2026
Here are some of the key factors and themes likely to worsen lives for millions in crisis hotspots over the coming year.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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In a year of steep challenges, there were still shining moments in global health
The Trump administration's deep cuts in U.S. foreign health aid had a devastating impact. Yet there were achievements of note in spite of it all.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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What We Know—and Don’t Know—About the Trump Administration’s Global Health Agreements
The State Department has announced an initial set of bilateral health cooperation agreements, signing eight memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with governments in sub-Saharan Africa. These compacts a...
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December 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The Big Flag Issues for Global Development Policy in 2026: Trump 2.0, China’s Status, Russia the spoiler, multi-alignment and 80% autocracy
Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel argue that the old assumptions about who sets development policy norms, who pays, and who decides what counts as “cooperation” no longer seem to hold.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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America First Global Health Strategy – Bilateral Agreements on Global Health Cooperation - United States Department of State
As outlined in the America First Global Health Strategy, the United States will sign multi-year Bilateral Agreements on Global Health Cooperation with dozens of countries receiving U.S. health assista...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Financial autonomy of facilities providing primary care services in low- and middle-income countries: assessing the evidence to inform the development of a typology and conceptual framework - BMC Heal...
BMC Health Services Research - Provider autonomy is increasingly asserted as an important attribute in health systems, but is rarely interrogated in-depth, particularly at primary care level. This...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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A critical assessment of strategic health purchasing in Benin's health financing schemes and the implications for universal health co
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December 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Decolonising Global Health in an Age of Fragmentation: Reimagining Equity for Universal Health Coverage
Abstract. The global health landscape is undergoing a significant transformation as traditional frameworks of cooperation face fragmentation amid geopoliti
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December 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Bridging Africa’s health financing gap: The case for remittance-based insurance | Brookings
From 17 Rooms, this memo explores how remittance-based insurance could help close Africa’s health financing gap.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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One‑Sided Compacts: Why the World Bank’s National Health Compacts Need to be a Two-Way Deal
This past weekend, 15 countries launched their National Health Compacts at the UHC (Universal Health Coverage) High-level Forum 2025, in partnership with the World Bank. The compacts represent high-le...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Financial protection in health care across the West African Economic and Monetary Union: a multidimensional analysis
Our findings suggest that absence of financial protection in the UEMOA is four times higher than conventional estimates, confirming the inadequacy of standard indicators in African contexts. The parad...
www.thelancet.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Universal Health Coverage: The Emperor has no clothes
In the 1837 fairy tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” everyone refuses to state an obvious truth — that the Emperor is naked.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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GFF’s new strategy
Strategy | Global Financing Facility
Investing in the health of women, children, and adolescents is one of the most impactful actions a country can make. It saves lives, empowers women to be agents of change in their communities, and pro...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Reforms to achieve affordable healthcare for 1.5bn by 2030
15 countries unveil major health reforms with the World Bank Group to expand affordable care & create jobs. Explore the 5 key approaches.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Responding to the health financing emergency: immediate measures and longer-term shifts
This guidance paper provides a set of health financing-related actions and analytics for countries to consider as they respond to rapid changes in funding and set new directions for their systems to e...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Lancet Commission on Health Systems Performance Assessment
25 years ago the World Health Report 2000: Health Systems: Improving Performance (WHR2000)1 used the WHO conceptual framework for health systems2 as the basis for exploring their performance. This fra...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The New U.S. Global Health Strategy — A Reset of America’s Health Cooperation | NEJM
The U.S. administration recently unveiled its new approach to global health. A retreat from multilateralism, a geopolitical emphasis, and rushed transitions could threaten progress.
www.nejm.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Pursuing Development Goals amid Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
Between the 2018 fiscal year (FY18) and FY22, IBRD/IDA financing to countries characterized by fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) through lending operations has increased from 27 billion t...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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What Aid Works (or Not) in Highly Fragile States? Evidence from Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008–21
Abstract. This chapter provides a summary of three systematic reviews on the effectiveness of aid in Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan between 2008 and 20
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December 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Avoidable pitfalls on the path to health financing self-reliance in low-income and middle-income countries
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November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Time to prioritise community health workers: a decade of cost-effectiveness evidence
Governments in low-income and middle-income countries face a stark challenge: delivering quality health care within the shrinking fiscal space. Many governments default to facility-based, curative inv...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Does global health have a future? Some reflections on the present.  – andrewharmer.org
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November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The Fragmentation Factor: How Social Division in 2025 Is Amplifying Global Risks - Risk & Insurance
As climate change loses ground to geopolitical instability and cybersecurity threats, AXA’s latest research reveals a world where the erosion of trust and social cohesion are making every crisis harde...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM