Global Financing Facility

Can GFF’s Senior Health Specialist Brendan Hayes tell us, in 60 seconds, why it’s important for countries to invest in adolescent health? Find out in episode 1 of our new series “Countdown to #InvestInHealth”. Watch the video.

In 2016, the government of Burkina Faso introduced free health care for pregnant women and children under five, and it recently committed to increasing its spending on health from 11% to 15% of its budget. These changes are helping increase the number of people visiting health facilities, but progress on key issues like nutrition and family planning is lagging. To address these challenges, in 2018, the government started working with the Global Financing Facility to improve access to maternal, child and adolescent health services to provide better quality health care to its citizens.

With the support of the Global Financing Facility and other partners, the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria is putting maternal, newborn and child health first for the most vulnerable people, and is tackling a nutrition crisis that has stunted millions of children.

We have an historic opportunity to contribute to ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths by 2030 by taking sustainable finance to scale. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) is helping governments in low- and lower-middle income countries transform how they prioritize and finance the health and nutrition of their people. This will contribute to saving up to 35 million lives by 2030, and greatly improve people’s and countries’ abilities to thrive in the global economy