http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/6 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:02:31 GMT 2026-07-22T08:02:31Z http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5422 Improving healthcare financing in Ethiopia: A policy brief IPHC-E This policy brief addresses the critical challenge of underfunded, fragmented, weak risk pooling, and unsustainable health care financing in Ethiopia. It outlines the scale of the problem, examines key drivers including heavy reliance on external funding and inefficient resource use and assesses viable policy options to mobilize domestic resources and improve their efficient utilization to advance progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5422 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5421 Primary health care digest, June 2026 IPHC-E Pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in Ethiopia continue to face persistent and interrelated challenges in accessing essential primary health care services. Geographic isolation and seasonal mobility disrupt continuity of primary health care and limit regular contact with health facilities, while low health literacy, language barriers, and deeply rooted cultural norms influence care-seeking behaviors, particularly for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and nutrition (RMNCH-N) services(1,2). These challenges are further compounded by recurrent crises such as flooding and disease outbreaks, as well as chronic shortages of supplies, staffing gaps, and inadequate infrastructure at frontline health posts(3). Collectively, these factors contribute to low utilization of RMNCH-N services and widen equity gaps within the national health system(3). Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5421 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5419 Co-modulation of clinical courses of hypertension and depression in public health facilities in Ethiopia: A six-month follow-up study protocol Anemaw Asrat, Getnet Mitike, Fentie Ambaw The co-occurrence of hypertension and depression is increasing both in magnitude and complexity, negatively impacting treatment outcomes of both conditions. Given that both conditions are chronic, the impact of each condition over time on the other needs to be well understood. This project aims to examine how each condition affects the course and outcome of the other over a six-month follow-up period. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5419 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5418 Managing public–private partnerships for health diagnostics: challenges and strategies Sara Bennett, Jennifer Applegate, Brenda Bunyasi, Adanna Uloaku Nwameme, Noelle Orata, Abigail Neel, Ligia Paina, Adjeiwa Akosua Affram, Daniel Nana Yaw Abankwah, Mohammed Abseno, Daniela C. Rodriguez, Getnet Mitike, Justice Nonvignon, Francis Wafula This paper draws upon a process evaluation of a public–private partnership (PPP) for diagnostics in three Sub-Saharan African countries, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya. The study sought to identify challenges in managing health PPP projects and potential solutions. We used an extensive document review and 72 recent key informant interviews (KIIs), building on 63 KIIs previously conducted to analyze the African Health Diagnostics Platform (AHDP) project in-depth. Our analysis employed a framework developed by Magalhaes et al based on the broader (non-health) PPP literature that identifies key challenges, strategies and success factors in PPP management across three main stages of PPP implementation. We find considerable alignment between the management challenges identified in the broader PPP literature and AHDP. Certainly, intensive negotiations and high transaction costs; difficulties managing risks and financing; the need for highly complex planning; and challenging stakeholder management all played a role in slowing progress on AHDP. An additional, critical theme concerns lack of capacity for managing health PPPs. The AHDP project generated a number of innovations to facilitate management but overall, if health PPPs are to succeed, more needs to be done to support their implementation. In particular, we propose investment in training government and technical assistance providers in health PPPs; development of repositories of guidance documents to support health PPPs; employment of systems-thinking based planning approaches that illuminate connections across the health system; more sophisticated approaches to stakeholder management; and investment in research that supports modeling of different PPP arrangements and how their progression is influenced by local contextual factors. While evidence on the impact of health PPPs remains scarce, moves toward increased healthcare corporatization in the context of dwindling aid underscores the urgency of building experience and evidence on PPPs in healthcare and other social sectors. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.iphce.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/5418 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z