Examining priorities and investments made through the Global Financing Facility for maternal and newborn health: a sub-analysis on quality.

ABSTRACT: Improving quality of care could avert most of the 4.5 million maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths that occur each year. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) aims to catalyse the national scale-up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions through focused investments. Achieving impact and value for money requires high, equitable coverage and high quality of interventions. This study examines whether the rhetoric of increasing coverage together with quality has informed investment strategies in MNH through a secondary analysis of 25 GFF documents from 11 African countries. The analysis shows that the country GFF-related documents incorporate some MNH-related quality of care components; however, there is a lack of clarity in what is meant by quality and the absence of core MNH

SUBMITTER: Kumar MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11486310 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature