Private sector partners are essential for better health outcomes. Abt-led programs offer lessons in private sector engagement to improve access to health services and strengthen health systems.
Abt’s VP for Good Health and Well-Being for All has spent much of her career engaging the private sector to advance health outcomes—particularly in family planning. As she prepares to attend Women Deliver, the world’s largest conference for gender equity, Caroline Quijada reflects on lessons from interventions and attention to adaptations to meet the needs of private sector health providers.
Many Tanzanian private health facilities lack the data and energy access to optimally reach people enrolled in HIV treatment, especially in rural areas. Abt leads an alliance with Tanzanian and international partners to solve this issue. The team will improve sustainable energy solutions and Internet connections at PEPFAR-supported sites run by the Christian Social Services Commission, which operates the country’s largest faith-based network of private facilities.
Health systems are not complete until they fully link the public and private sectors. In Nepal, our USAID systems-strengthening project rolled out a “public-private mix” approach to in-service clinical training, which advanced localization and local ownership of health sector improvements. In this blog, our team details how opportunities now abound to ramp up public-private collaboration in the Nepali health sector.
Since 2018, Benin’s Private Health Sector Platform has partnered with an Abt-led program to raise the quality and availability of private services and products for mothers, babies and young children, a huge step to reducing maternal and child deaths and improving health outcomes in Benin. This platform now represents 20 private sector health associations, supports registration and accreditation for its members, and advocates for changes in relevant laws and regulations.
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