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Guatemala

HP+ More recent Guatemala publications are available.

  • The Health Policy Project (HPP) helped countries achieve their health goals by building capacity for policy, advocacy, governance, and finance at multiple levels. The project developed global tools and best practices for policy work, promoted South-South sharing and collaboration, and carried out regional and country-specific policy initiatives. The files included in this zip document provide brief program overviews for each country highlighting key accomplishments. Individual briefs are available from the country pages.

  • Access to information and reproductive health services, especially related to family planning, can help to improve the alarming rates of maternal and infant mortality and reduce malnutrition within a framework of respect for human rights.

    This publication by the Health and Education Policy Project presents two scenarios developed with the Spectrum projection system for what could happen in Guatemala between 2010 and 2050. Through analysis of a set of indicators, it estimates the future needs of programs and interventions related health.

  • Investing for impact is an explicit goal of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The institution’s strategy for 2012 to 2016 focuses on countries and populations where interventions promise maximum rewards for public health. As part of this “New Funding Model,” the Global Fund is asking applicant countries seeking financing to more accurately  demonstrate where and how their HIV programs will yield significant, measurable improvements in limiting the spread of the virus. Accomplishing this will depend to a great extent on each country’s ability to use geospatial analysis of epidemiological data to target resources to areas with the greatest need.

    Not all countries seeking Global Fund support have extensive experience with geospatial analysis. To address this gap, the Health Policy Project (HPP)—funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—is working with 9 countries eligible for Global Fund support to strengthen their use of geospatial analysis in HIV policymaking and in strategic, financial, and program planning.

  • In developing countries, governments are increasingly turning to innovative policy measures to improve access to basic health services. In Guatemala, policies were introduced to protect the financing and provision of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) services. Follow-on legislation earmarked 30 percent of the alcohol tax revenue for the Ministry of Health (MOH) to purchase contraceptives. To determine the impact of the revenue on the FP/RH budget, the Health and Education Policy Project (HEPP) evaluated whether the funds were available and used as legislated. HEPP gathered data on MOH funds and alcohol tax funds retrospectively to see if the policy was working as intended. Budget tracking constitutes a practical, sustainable tool for non-experts to assess transparency.