Purchasing Health Services to Respond to COVID-19 – How to Involve and Contract Private Sector Providers in the South-East Asia Region?

This blog outlines common policy questions, current country practices as well as policy guidance for purchasing health services from private health care providers in response to the COVID-19 challenges at the country level.

Publication Year:

2020

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

Ms. Tsolmongerel Tsilaajav et al.
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…