The first delivery on the new HealthyBaby vouchers took place the morning of February 28th (see Melissa’s post).The delivery took place at Angella’s Domicillary in Rubindi trading center. Mother and baby are both doing well. The program was launched in September in Mbarara and then issues ranging from reimbursement rates to database development took longer [...]

The Kenya and Uganda OBA programs were both financed by the German KfW Development Bank and launched in mid-2006.  Recently a film was made about the Kenyan “voucher babies” highlighting one expectant mother in the Kenya program. Nov 12 update:  I wanted to post this newsletter (KenPop vol 2 issue 3, 1.9MB PDF) with more [...]

The next phase of output-based aid in Uganda has begun to provide subsidized delivery care for 90,000 poor women in the west of the country.  On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Marie Stopes has contracted thirteen facilities with another 70 potential facilities to join in the next nine months.  The voucher is sold by [...]

Anna Gorter is giving a talk next Thursday at the University of Bristol about vouchers in health. The synopsis follows here: Competitive voucher schemes are one of many demand-side financing approaches to health care, which links public funding to delivery of basic health services. The schemes have the potential to target specific segments of the [...]

I was in Uganda this past week following up the data cleaning from our October-November population survey.  On Wednesday I heard from the people at HLSP.org about their Gates funded work to document low-cost “work aids” and their interest in what the Uganda OBA project may use. The main work-aids for the output-based STI voucher [...]

Posted originally on the GPOBA website in October. WASHINGTON, October 24, 2007– KfW Entwicklungsbank, a German government-owned development bank, yesterday signed a US$ 4.3 million grant to be administered by The World Bank, for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and reduction of maternal and infant mortality amongst poor people in Uganda.   The grant [...]

Each month the OBA STI Voucher team compiled a report on the “vital statistics” of the voucher program including voucher sales, provider reimbursements amounts, and claims received for patients seen. In addition, there were several reports from Mbarara University medical advisors on providers’ laboratory performance. OBA STI Voucher Project Report July 2006 (MS Word, 1300kb) [...]

Attached is the November 2007 report (MS word, 245kb) on the output-based aid project for STI treatment. Highlights are listed on the first page and include the following: 970 patients seen in November for a project cumulative total of 17 000 patients seen, 931 000 Uganda shillings (US$547) generated in income to private healthcare providers [...]