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Madagascar

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  • This summary presents the findings, observations, and recommendations of the quantification of the costs of the Strategic Development Plan for the Health Sector (PDSS) from 2015 to 2019 in Madagascar. The PDSS includes an articulation of global health priorities, approaches to the implementation, and resource commitments required by the Government of Madagascar to meet healthcare goals. The Health Policy Project team used the OneHealth model to quantify the costs. The OHT can calculate the cost not only health interventions but also those of managing these health programs and cross-cutting costs of health systems, such as human resources, infrastructure and governance. 

  • In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), expected national fertility levels and country-level observations demonstrate repeated mismatches in magnitude and/or direction.Thus there is an unfulfilled demand for better explaining, understanding, and communicating how fertility changes. Accurately predicting fertility is critical for understanding how populations may be expected to change, and for managing expectations about the possible impacts of TFR-affecting policy levers. The USAID-funded Health Policy Project produced this poster for the 2015 Population Association of America conference to determine to what extent can the accuracy of predicting fertility in SSA using the proximate determinants framework be improved by implementing revisions, with emphasis on the contraception index.