Publications

The government of Papua New Guinea has conducted three rounds of National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) covering the periods 2009 to 2015. The assessments have helped tracked HIV spending from international, public and private sources that contributing to the National Response to HIV in Papua New Guinea. The information proved valuable in facilitating strategic information for strategic action and decision-making, improving linkage and understanding of different actors and investors in the HIV response of the country and, at some level, in leveraging both technical and financial support for the development, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of PNG’s national HIV response.

This report summarizes the fifth round of GPC reporting. It is written at a time when countries were transitioning from the 2016–2020 to the 2021–2026 Global AIDS Strategy. The report provides a forward-looking perspective on findings as of 2021, as a foundation or benchmark for the accelerated progress that is needed over the next decade. Previous GPC progress reports have detailed the 2020 Road Map—the GPC’s 10-point action plan for strengthening national HIV prevention programmes— and have reported the gains and gaps observed in implementing the Road Map using the GPC’s scorecard method. This report focuses instead on the outcomes of these efforts. 

The WHO Global strategy on human resources for health: workforce 2030 encourages development partners and global health initiatives to leverage their support to health systems in countries to sustainably strengthen the health workforce. To assess the impact of these investments, a methodology was developed and pilot tested by WHO.

UNICEF’S Gender Policy 2021-2030 and accompanying Action Plan 2022-2025 articulate UNICEF’s commitments to promoting gender equality across programmes, workplaces and practices around the world.

Over the last 20 years the Global Fund partnership has saved 44 million lives and reduced the annual death toll from HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria (HTM) by 46% since its peak in countries where the Global Fund invests. We, the Global Fund partnership of implementer governments, civil society, technical partners, development partners, the private sector and people and communities affected by the three diseases, have proven that by acting together we can overcome barriers, save lives and dramatically change the course of these three terrible pandemics.

Modern, effective contraception is widely — though not universally — available. Why, then, are half of all pregnancies unplanned, and many of them unwanted? This is a reminder of how many people ,especially women and girls, are limited in exercising their basic rights. It is a sign that gender discrimination continues to wind through the lives of women and girls, as well as transgender, non-binary and gender expansive people. It points to deep gaps in rights and justice, gender equality, human dignity and broader social well-being. So many unplanned and unwanted pregnancies raise questions about how much the rights and potential of more than half of humanity are prioritized and valued. They signal that the world could fail to reach its development goals for health, education and gender equality, derailing the shared ambitions of the international community.

The goal of this Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC is to advance improvements in health and progress towards UHC through aligning health worker education approaches with population health needs and health system demands. More specifically, the primary objective of this document is to provide guidance for the specification of pre-service and in-service competency-based education outcomes for health workers, which in turn inform the development of relevant curricula, learning activities and assessment approaches.

The Global Competency Framework for Universal Health Coverage identifies the health worker competencies towards the achievement of UHC organized within six domains: people-centredness, decision-making, communication, collaboration, evidence-informed practice and personal conduct. This framework has been developed through the lens of 12-48 month pre-service education pathways. With this framework, WHO sets out its recommended approach to competency-based health worker education outcomes; in so doing, it also provides conceptual and terminological clarity.

This module introduces the principles of competency-based education (CBE) and the competency model used within the WHO Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC which is oriented towards the performance of the practice activities relevant for the scope of practice and service package. It maps the HIV services from the UHC Compendium with the practice activities in the Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC; in so doing, it provides a reference for the content and outcomes to be integrated into competency-based curricula.

Universal health coverage is guided by the principle that individuals and communities receive the services they need, including essential good-quality health services, without suffering financing hardship. The establishment or expansion of government-sponsored health insurance is often promoted as the main vehicle to finance universal health coverage.