In collaboration with other technical and financial partners in the health sector, Niger's Ministry of Health led the way in setting up the Institut National d'Assistance Médicale (INAM). This document is the latest report (July 2021) available for download on the...
This brief discusses Sudan’s existing national plans and policies to achieve UHC. Among the national plans include the health financing reforms which led to the expansion of the Sudanese National Health Insurance (NHI) from civil servants and formal sector employees...
Ethiopia’s remarkable socio-economic transformation over the last decade has been marked by: a reorientation of expenditure from recurrent to capital; a significant devolution of resources from Federal Government to Regions; and a clear prioritization of...
Malawi has considered significant health financing and organizational reforms since 2013 to increase access to quality health services through increased domestic financing to the health sector. The health reform process consists of four areas, namely: (1) Establishing...
This paper presents the results of modeling to project Ethiopia’s future resources to finance primary health care and compare them with the likely costs of providing primary care according to current government plans. The paper explores different scenarios related to...
This study examines the financial sustainability of CBHI schemes, focusing on schemes that have been operational for more than two years, and provides descriptions of institutional structures, human resource capacity, engagement and commitment of key stakeholders, and...
In the last 10 years, Africa has witnessed a renewed interest in Community-based Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes as countries leverage communities to expand risk-pooling coverage to informal sectors and the rural population. Among African countries, Ethiopia’s...
A low-income country, Ethiopia has made impressive progress in improving health outcomes. The Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation reported that Ethiopia has achieved Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4, three years ahead of target, with under-5 mortality...
“This book describes the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector in Vietnam. It defines health-related PPPs, describes their key characteristics, and develops a taxonomy of the different types of PPPs that exist in practice, illustrated by...
The COVID-19 pandemic poses clear threats to Ethiopia’s reforms and relatively strong economic growth, with “wide-ranging and serious” according to a UN report. The report assesses the devastating social and economic dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis and sets out the...
Indonesia has increased health insurance coverage to 83 % of the total population. Due to the rise of noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevalence, public health spending may need to shift the focus to primary health care. Indonesia has released several iterations of its...
This document presents case studies from six African countries (Eswatini, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa) and: • reviews the process by which prioritized SRHR interventions were included in countries’ health benefits packages; • discusses...
Ensuring adequate access to quality health services, whether preventative or curative, is critical for a country to ensure that its population attain better health outcomes. In this context, universal health coverage (UHC), embedded within sustainable development...
