National Health Development Plan 2026-2030 validated in Benin
Benin's council of ministers on September 3, 2025 validated the national health development plan 2026-2030. It is planned to spend 1,000 billion FCFA on health during this period. In early September 2025, the Council of Ministers validated Benin's National Health...
High-level conference on health financing in Benin
On July 2025, representatives of governments, the private sector and technical and financial partners met in Benin for the first high-level conference on health financing in Africa, organized by the private health sector platform.Benin's private health sector platform...
Compulsory health insurance in Benin: the amount of contributions is known
On Thursday, October 31, 2024, government spokesman Wilfried Houngbédji provided details on the costs of health insurance, the generalization phase of which will soon begin. Health insurance, one of the four integrated services of the Assurance pour le renforcement du...
Social protection and health insurance on the CIPB table
The Council of Private Investors in Benin (CIPB) in collaboration with the Benin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI Bénin) organized a round table on health insurance. Employers and employees took part in this conclave, which opened on November 5 in Cotonou....
Universal health coverage in Benin: a clear political commitment
The Beninese government is continuing its efforts to make access to essential health services a reality for all citizens. Since April 2016, the Beninese authorities have been committed to making health "an essential dimension of the population's well-being and a key...
Gbessokè social program: 34,000 beneficiaries receive their identifiers
As part of the implementation of the "GBESSOKE" productive social safety net program, 34,000 Personal Identification Number certificates were handed over to the program's Implementation Support Unit (CAMO) on June 13 in Cotonou.The Government of Benin, through the...
Conclave of experts on health financing in West Africa
A meeting of African experts and stakeholders was held in Abidjan, from June 20 to 22, 2024, with the aim of discussing strategies to strengthen the role of the private sector in healthcare financing in West Africa.At the 32nd AU Assembly held in February 2019 in...
Côte d’Ivoire-Webinar on strategic purchasing for primary healthcaré lessons from national workshops.
The Global Financing Facility (GFF), the World Bank and the World Health Organization are working together to organize country workshops to help ministries of health tackle this crucial political and technical agenda for the CSU. A webinar is scheduled for Thursday...
Mise à jour de la feuille de route glissante P4H
Voir ci-dessous. 2014_02_18_MSP_Benin-Situation_MEO_recommandations_P4H_commentairesAlexis
BENIN: Universal health coverage at the heart of a workshop in Cotonou
" Documentation de processus pour la Couverture sanitaire universelle (Csu) en Afrique sub-saharienne ". Experts are meeting in Cotonou to discuss this topic at a workshop organized by the Centre de recherche en reproduction humaine et en démographie...
Compulsory health insurance in Benin: in the face of concerns, the Government reassures
From January 2022, health insurance will be compulsory for all Beninese. The subject has raised many questions, and the Minister of Health, Benjamin Hounkpatin, has given an interview to the national and international press in order to reassure them of the steps being...
Benin-Access to healthcare: The martyrdom of the indigent
From the Universal Health Insurance Scheme (Ramu) to the Assurance pour le renforcement du capital humain (Arch) project currently being rolled out, access to health care and services for the most disadvantaged remains a major concern in Benin. In public hospitals,...
Benin: Generalized health insurance in January 2022
Benin's public health professionals are holding a meeting this Monday, November 8 at the Palais des Congrès in Cotonou, to discuss the country's plan to generalize health insurance. Called "Bénin santé 2021" (Benin Health 2021), the meeting is organized by Benin's...
BENIN: Free FP, a relief for the indigent fund
In 2005, the Beninese government set up the Indigent Health Fund to facilitate access to healthcare for the underprivileged. In the field, family planning appears as a means of reducing expenditure on this Fund. Free access to FP services to reduce...
BENIN/Projet ARCH: free health care for children in reception centers
Good news for children in Benin's reception centers. They can now look forward to adequate, free health care, in line with the provisions of the decree of November 06, 2012 on norms and standards applicable to child care and protection centers in Benin. On Monday, the...