Vergil de Claro

RTI International Philippines · USAID ReachHealth Project

Citation: de Claro, V.; Bautista, N.; Torralba, M.R.; Castro, V.V.; Lucero, M.A.; Molleno, L.J.; Stan, L. Infection Abstract: Infection prevention and control measures are effective at protecting patients and healthcare workers from healthcare-acquired infections, averting onward transmission of the disease and mitigating the impact of the outbreak...

Introduction Widespread vaccination against COVID-19 is one of the most effective ways to control, and ideally, end the global COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine rates vary widely across countries and populations and are influenced by complex sociocultural, political, economic and psychological factors. Community engagement is an inte...

Background Widespread vaccination against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the most effective ways to control, and ideally, end the global COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine rates vary widely across countries and populations and are influenced by complex socio-cultural, political, economic, and psychological factors. Comm...

Introduction Community engagement has been considered a fundamental component of past outbreaks, such as Ebola. However, there is concern over the lack of involvement of communities and ‘bottom-up’ approaches used within COVID-19 responses thus far. Identifying how community engagement approaches have been used in past epidemics may support more ro...

Introduction Community engagement has been considered a fundamental component of past outbreaks, such as Ebola. The COVID-19 pandemic and its control efforts require social actions and behaviours, all of which place a large reliance on individual and community compliance, highlighting the need for appropriate community engagement to support such wo...

The integration and involvement of communities in COVID-19 prevention and control is a potential and viable strategy in addressing the pandemic and has been suggested by The World Health Organization, UNICEF and IFRC among others. Indeed, the recommended measures to prevent and control COVID-19 such as physical-social distancing, case identificatio...

Health financing in the Philippines has evolved through the years since the introduction of a health insurance system in 1969. However, financing remains fragmented with multiple funding streams that sometimes overlap and run separately from and independent of each other. These pools vary in the way they are funded and the services they finance. Gl...

More low- and middle-income countries seek to shift to strategic purchasing, creating a demand for practical tools to assess current purchasing situations and identify options for future development. To contribute to such processes, a collectivity group on Strategic Purchasing and Universal Health Coverage was launched jointly by the WHO, Institute...

Achieving univer sal health coverage—ensuring access to basic health services for an entire population without risk of financial hardship or impoverishment—is a challenge confronting many countries. To sustain progress toward universal health coverage, governments must generate resources for expanding coverage, distribute the resources equitably, a...