How much does it cost to combine supply-side and demand-side RBF approaches in a single intervention? Full cost analysis of the Results Based Financing for Maternal and Newborn Health Initiative in Malawi.

Objective: To estimate the economic cost associated with implementing the Results Based Financing for Maternal and Newborn Health (RBF4MNH) Initiative in Malawi. No specific hypotheses were formulated ex-ante.

Setting: Primary and secondary delivery facilities in rural Malawi.

Erratum: Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review.

In the final version of our article entitled, "Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review" the authors inadvertently failed to acknowledge the role of International Union of Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). IUSSP colleagues kindly reviewed early drafts of the manuscript presented at an IUSSP workshop in Bangkok August 2012 and had specifically requested that we recognize their feedback. We therefore feel obliged to acknowledge IUSSP.

A taxonomy and results from a comprehensive review of 28 maternal health voucher programmes.

It is increasingly clear that Millennium Development Goal 4 and 5 will not be achieved in many low- and middle-income countries with the weakest gains among the poor. Recognizing that there are large inequalities in reproductive health outcomes, the post-2015 agenda on universal health coverage will likely generate strategies that target resources where maternal and newborn deaths are the highest. In 2012, the United States Agency for International Development convened an Evidence Summit to review the knowledge and gaps on the utilization of financial incentives to enhance the quality and uptake of maternal healthcare.

Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review.

Background: Developing countries face challenges in financing healthcare; often the poor do not receive the most basic services. The past decade has seen a sharp increase in the number of voucher programs, which target output-based subsidies for specific services to poor and underserved groups. The dearth of literature that examines lessons learned risks the wheel being endlessly reinvented.