Financing Alliance for Health Country Case Study: Peru

Authors: Financing the Alliance for Health

Financing Alliance for Health has produced a series of country case studies providing robust information on community health system profiles, taking a financing lens. Each case study includes insights on community health system context, structure and lessons on financing.

Peru is an upper middle-income country that has made significant progress towards their health targets. However, despite efforts to push a primary health agenda, Peru lacks a coordinated national strategy to organize the non-uniform and non-integrated CHA programs across communities. Key lessons that have emerged from this program:

there were dramatic reductions in maternal, neonatal, and child mortality
decentralized system of health governance allowed for MINSA to set national priorities
evidence-based advocacy proved to be effective
slow growth in health expenditure decreased financial stability