Burkina Faso: Orientation workshop on the health alignment framework
From March 28 to 30, 2023, the World Bank, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, organized an orientation workshop on the alignment framework in the health sector in Burkina Faso. The opening ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Health, Dr Lucien...
Mali-RAMU: Association of private practitioners opts for rational prescribing
On March 18, 2023, the Association des Médecins Libérales du Mali organized a scientific day in Bamako on "The rights and duties of liberal doctors, for rational prescribing within the RAMU framework". The opening ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Health...
Ivory Coast-Free health care: a committee against blackmail is created!
A pesar de que la asistencia sanitaria se presta gratuitamente en los establecimientos sanitarios de base comunitaria y en los centros sanitarios urbanos de base comunitaria, algunos usuarios son víctimas de chantajes por servicios en principio gratuitos. Los ESCOM...
Mali: Threat of strike against compulsory health insurance
Unions of Malian pharmacists and medical analysis laboratories are threatening to suspend the services of Amo, the compulsory health insurance scheme. The cause: late payments by the Malian government."If the problem is not resolved by then, the Amo service,...
Côte d’Ivoire: Meeting of the Health Financing TWG
On Friday May 26, 2023, the Health Financing Technical Working Group (GTT_FS)-Health Sector Group met. Several key points were on the agenda of the meeting, which took place via Teams under the leadership of P4H-PFP in Côte d'Ivoire, Serges Mayaka.This meeting of the...
Côte d’Ivoire: National social protection strategy (2013)
L’élaboration de cette Stratégie Nationale de Protection Sociale découle d’un processus de dialogue national, de recherche, d’analyse d’options politiques et de concertation. Le Gouvernement de Côte d’Ivoire s’inscrit ainsi dans les orientations adoptées au...
Kazakhstan is merging the two benefits packages introduced in 2020 with SHI
Historically, Kazakhstan has adopted two benefits packages with the launch of the Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform nationally in January 2020. One was the guaranteed volume of free medical care, universally accessible by all regardless of the insurance...
President Japarov amended the Health Insurance Law to expand coverage by mandating SHI
After approval by the Parliament, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov signed the Law "On Health Insurance of Citizens in the Kyrgyz Republic", enforced immediately. This law has been introduced since 1990’s and has been amended with the purpose to make health...
Promoting Access to Health Care for Women and Child Migrants in Latin America / Promoviendo el acceso a la atención de salud de mujeres y niños migrantes en América Latina
Women and children in contexts of high migration in Latin America and the Caribbean lack sufficient social protection in health and face barriers to accessing health care when they need it / Las mujeres y los niños en contextos de alta migración en América Latina y el...
African countries are making the transition from donor-funded HIV programmes to government-led initiatives
African countries are witnessing a transition from donor funding to domestic resource mobilization for their response to HIV. This article summarizes various studies on the public financing of HIV programmes in many African countries to explain the shift from...
Pakistan needs an equitable investment in the health system and collaborative efforts
In the February 2023 issue of The Lancet Global Health, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Pakistan Collaborators published a comprehensive report analysing the health trends and burden of disease in Pakistan from 1990 to 2019. This study asserts the need to...
Пакистану необходимы справедливые инвестиции в систему здравоохранения и совместные усилия
В февральском номере журнала The Lancet Global Health за 2023 г. коллабораторы исследования Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Pakistan опубликовали комплексный отчет, в котором проанализированы тенденции в области здравоохранения и бремя болезней в Пакистане за...
Why Health Taxes Matter: A Mechanism to Improve Health and Revenue Outcomes
This Factsheet is first of the Knowledge Note Series of the World Bank's Global Tax Program. The purpose of this note is to provide policy makers an overview of an economic framework for setting health taxes, with a specific focus on taxing tobacco, alcoholic drinks,...
Informal employment and catastrophic health expenditures: Evidence from Pakistan
This research article published by Wiley, estimates the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) and impoverishment across the households in formal and informal employment and their key determinants in Pakistan. Abstract Workers in informal employment...
Неформальная занятость и катастрофические расходы на здравоохранение: Данные по Пакистану
В данной научной статье, опубликованной издательством Wiley, оценивается распространенность катастрофических расходов на здравоохранение (КРЗ) и обнищание населения среди домохозяйств с формальной и неформальной занятостью, а также их основные детерминанты в...