Drafting health policy and legislation - Malawi
In Malawi, Health Partners International (HPI) developed a comprehensive policy and statutory framework to help implement central hospital reform, by:
- reviewing the roles of academic institutions and research organisations in promoting service delivery
- negotiating new agreements to operate at central hospitals
- reviewing control of research in Malawi.
Our work incorporated developing the National Health Policy and Malawi National Health Bill to address a wide range of issues, including:
- international financing agreements
- targets under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative
- decentralisation of health service delivery
- the use of the Sector-Wide Approach
- control of health-related research
- meeting Millennium Development Goal targets.