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United States : Gates Foundation announces $14.5m Grant to improve Healthcare Access in Developing Countries
Publish Date : 14-Dec-2018
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced $14.5m grant which will help an Imperial group improve and expand healthcare access in developing countries.
Under the leadership of Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Professor of Practice in Global Health at Imperial, the Global Health and Development Group is a core partner of the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI), a global network of health policy makers, researchers, and development experts.
The network provides expert advice to decision-makers in LMICs to support them make evidence-informed decisions about how much public money to spend on healthcare and how that money can be spent as effectively as possible.
The iDSI works with policymakers and healthcare payers in low and middle-income countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, to understand and respond to challenges such as sustainable health insurance and access to quality healthcare.
iDSI Director, Professor Chalkidou, who also directs the Global Health program at the Center for Global Development said, With government and aid budgets under pressure, many developing countries are facing declines in health funding and are going to have to make difficult choices.
Chalkidou also said, Policymakers decisions about what health care to make available and at what cost can be a life or death decision for people across the developing world. We will inform these critical decisions with data and evidence that maps out how best to spend limited funds to improve outcomes and save lives.
The network is already influencing policy in China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, South Africa, Tanzania, and Ghana where there has been tangible progress toward national institutions being established to embed value-for-money into decision-making about what medicines, vaccines or other health services should be offered to the population, and how these could be procured in the most cost-effective way.
The network has supported Tanzania to prioritise its Essential Medicines List from 500 to 400 drugs, reducing spending on poor value items and freeing up resources to improve access to the most cost-effective medicines.
The network has also trained Kenyas Health Benefits Package Committee on measuring the added value of a new health intervention compared to existing ones, piloted a local quality improvement initiative with hospital staff in Vietnam to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for pneumonia and brought together more than 100 policy makers working across Sub-Saharan Africa to share knowledge and best practice.
