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Emma Iriarte, Executive Secretary Salud Mesoamerica Initaitive Adela lives in a small village in the Copan region. She had five children and in 2016 she became pregnant with her sixth child.

Results of the measurement of results of the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative show progress in access to health of the poorest 20 percent of the country’s population. As result of this, the Public Health Secretariat will receive 1.7 million Dollars for meeting the initiative’s goals.

Deaths due to malaria have been reduced in Central America by 90% in 15 years. The goal for 2020 is that the number becomes zero EMMA IRIARTE

Malaria EL BID Y LAS FUNDACIONES GATES Y SLIM RESPALDAN INICIATIVA DE CINCO AÑOS 

Early this month, CGD co-hosted a conference with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), highlighting progress, challenges, and lessons learned from the first phase of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI), a seven-year-old results-based funding (RBF) partnership between donors and national…

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The mater code protocol of the Women’s Hospital in San Cristóbal de las Casas avoided the death of a woman eight days after delivering her son, who weighed 890 grams at birth. ​ Linda Guadalupe Santiago feeds her son Benjamín in the sitting room of her home in San Cristóbal de las Casas last May…

Performance-based financing (PBF) is a mechanism by which health providers are paid on the basis of outputs or results delivered. A PBF program was implemented on the provision of HIV, prevention of mother-to child HIV transmission (PMTCT), and maternal/child health (MCH) services in two provinces…

Rebeca Gómez, aged 20, began to swell. She was six months pregnant, but that sudden increase in weight was not normal. It was her first pregnancy and she began to get worried. She had been taught to detect and identify alarm signs during pregnancy and suspected something was not right. Rebeca lives…