Fuente: BBC

The Vice Minister of Health Services, Dr. Julio Robles Ticas and representatives from the Inter-American Development Bank, (IDB) deliver recognitions for performance in healthcare to the Family Health Community Teams (Equipos Comunitarios de Salud Familiar - Ecos) from the Ministry of Health, who were selected from 75 participants in the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative.

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.

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 of Mozambique.

Despite progress over the past decade in reducing the global burden of newborn deaths, gaps in the knowledge base persist, and means of translating empirical findings into effective policies and programs that deliver life-saving interventions remain poorly understood. Articles in this issue highlight the relevance of transdisciplinary research in… [see more]

Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico, is a mix of wonder and sadness. It is home to rain forests, Mayan ruins, waterfalls, rugged highlands — and some of the country’s highest death rates among women in childbirth.

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

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 governments in health.

Fuente: DEVEX IMPACT Following a performance by women wearing traditional Peruvian dress, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú and Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra posed with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in matching alpaca scarves and caps...