Investments in Innovative Financing and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Will Enable Countries to Accelerate Progress on Family Planning LONDON – The Global Financing Facility (GFF) in support...
Date: July 11, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 27, 2017 – A new report issued today by the World Bank reveals that the health sector needs more public investments and better allocation of resources to improve access to health care...
Date: June 27, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Improvement in key health indicators sets new benchmark in spite of serious insecurity KABUL – JUNE 01, 2017 – The World Bank today announced the results of a review of progress achieved in the health...
Date: June 1, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
SHARISTAN DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – A father sits on a wooden chair and caresses his child, who is lying on a bed with his hand in a bandage. In a corner, a doctor checks the case papers of an elderly...
Date: May 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
NEW DELHI, March 23, 2017 – The Government of India, the Government of Uttarakhand and the World Bank today signed a credit agreement for the US$100 million Uttarakhand Health Systems Development...
Date: March 23, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Represents a Critical Step toward Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals for Women, Children and Adolescent Health DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, Jan. 19, 2017 – MSD, known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J.,...
Date: January 19, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
BANIKOARA, September 22, 2016 ─ Alexandrine Same Ibrahima arrived in Banikoara in northern Benin with her husband in 2014. As she was pregnant, the first order of business was to seek prenatal care at...
Date: September 21, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Tim Sokhoeun, 27, is seven and a half months pregnant and lives in Kvek village of Mourng commune, Siem Reap province. She is regularly monitoring her baby’s growth, and making sure that she and her son...
Date: July 27, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Interview with Carlos Piñerúa, World Bank Country Manager for Croatia and Slovenia for the Lider business weekly, published on May 27, 2016. Shortly after his appointment in August 2014 as the World Bank...
Date: June 9, 2016
Type: Opinion
Language: English
HARARE, February 3, 2016 –- Today, the World Bank launched the first edition of its Zimbabwe Economic Update (ZEU) focusing on Changing Growth Patterns; Improving Health Outcomes. The ZEU aims to...
Date: February 3, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
By Melanie Mayhew, Communications Officer, World Bank Group In the windswept valleys of eastern Zambia, home deliveries are too common and some women die during childbirth. But in Lundazi district, just...
Date: December 17, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
New partnership to raise resources from private capital markets to help close global financing gap for investments in maternal, adolescent and child health ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 13, 2015—The...
Date: July 13, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Falling ill costs money. But how much you have to spend out-of-pocket depends on where you live. In Europe, with well-developed social insurance, out-of-pocket spending is typically capped, something that...
Date: July 8, 2015
Type: Opinion
Language: English
World Bank team of experts presented findings from studies commissioned by the Government on Bulgaria’s Health Financing System, Pharmaceuticals, and Emergency Care SOFIA, April 29, 2015 — The Bulgarian...
Date: April 29, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Dear Minister, Deputy Ministers, distinguished guests, I’m delighted and thrilled to be addressing you today. Delighted because our World Bank team of experts delivered on the important task to look closely...
Date: April 27, 2015
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
JALALABAD CITY, Nangarhar Province – Doctors rush to a seven-year-old child as he lies on a bed in the emergency room of the Nangarhar Regional Hospital in Jalalabad city. Located at the junction of the...
Date: April 21, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to affirm the unwavering commitment by the World Bank Group to help Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone end the Ebola epidemic...
Date: March 3, 2015
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
This op-ed was originally published in the Financial Times. Leaders in emerging markets often tell me they want to improve their competitiveness while lifting people out of poverty and protecting a growing...
Date: October 20, 2014
Type: Opinion
Language: English
Researchers studied nearly 80,000 households from 600 villages and found a 64 percent drop in mortality from diseases covered by the insurance NEW DELHI, October 8, 2014 – A government program to provide...
Date: October 9, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
20 year old Eshwar stopped going to school five years ago when he developed severe headaches and breathing problems. When nothing made him feel better, his family took him to the government hospital...
Date: October 8, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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