P4H Annual Review 2023-2024
Looking back on the twelve months from July 2023 through June 2024, the P4H Network reflects on its continuing reach – and relevance – across the globe.New results were achieved thanks to the commitment of the P4H Network’s members, cochairs, funders and partnerships...
Report to the Congress of the Republic 2023-2024
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection presents the health sector report for the period from June 2023 to May 2024, highlighting the progress in objectives, plans and projects contained in the Sector and Institutional Strategic Plan, the main achievements and...
Health crisis in Angola
With their budgets cut by 50% as a direct consequence of the fall in oil prices, Angolan public hospitals are finding it increasingly difficult to meet their obligations.The fall in oil prices is having a terrible impact on the Angolan economy. One of the hardest hit...
Plan Comores Émergent 2030
The vision of the Plan Comores Émergent is to foster "a strong economy in which the industrial sector, particularly manufacturing, plays a major role in wealth creation and in the modernization of the Comorian economy". According to the President of the Union of the...
Improving HTA Collaboration in Asia-Pacific: The Role of HTAsiaLink
The article titled "A Framework for Improved Collaboration on HTA in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Role for HTAsiaLink," published in the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Healthcare examines the crucial role of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in...
Introducing a new feature: national health financing reform timeline
Country pages for the Republic of Korea and Thailand now have timelines for national health financing reforms. Visit each country page to see a summarized history of health financing policies and more resources.The P4H Network is excited to announce the new country...
Comoros: Generalized health insurance by 2030
Comoros plans to introduce health insurance by 2030. According to the government, the first test phase is about to begin. For the moment, 52,000 households have been identified, are in the process of enrolling and will soon receive health insurance cards. Comoros is...
AFD injects over 7 million euros into the National Mental Health Strategy 2024-2030
The National Mental Health Program (NMHP), officially launched on June 27, 2024, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Lebanon and with the support of the French Development Agency (AFD), the National Mental Health Strategy for the period...
Special issue of Health Promotion International: Addressing the commercial determinants of health
A new Health Promotion International issue highlights the commercial determinants of health, urging global collaboration to counter harmful corporate practices and protect public health over profit. The latest special issue of Health Promotion International (Volume...
Lebanon: the health sector in the grip of the economic crisis
The economic crisis, which has plunged a large part of the population into poverty, has also had a devastating impact on the healthcare sector. Hospitals are underfunded, medicines are in short supply, and access to healthcare has become a major challenge for many...
Mauritania: 10,000 health insurance cards distributed
The Caisse nationale de solidarité sanitaire (CNASS) continues to expand throughout the country. On November 5, the municipality of Arafat launched the distribution of 10,000 health insurance cards to vulnerable groups. The mayor of the Arafat commune, Mr. Mohamed...
Celebrating resilience: a sustainable primary health care model in Côte d’Ivoire
In November, the Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage, the Senate of Côte d’Ivoire, community associations, health care workers and patients celebrated 30 years of their resilient primary health care model. Forty community health centres in...
Health crisis in Yemen: the Government warns
The Yemeni government issued an official warning of an impending health crisis on Sunday, August 4, 2024, as a threat to close key medical facilities across the country follows a severe reduction in international funding.Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak...
Free CMU for Ivorian cocoa and coffee producers
Producers of coffee and cocoa, the two main agricultural products in the Ivorian economy, now benefit from health insurance fully paid for by the state, to the tune of 12 billion CFA francs (US$20 million) a year."From now on, all coffee and cocoa growers holding a...
Towards a sustainable financing strategy for health and immunization
On Thursday October 31 in Abidjan, the Association de soutien à l'autopromotion sanitaire urbaine (ASAPSU), in collaboration with the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) and GAVI, organized a co-creation workshop on the study of health and vaccination financing in...