Two P4H-CFPs present at the seventh AfHEA
The African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) organized its seventh biennial Scientific Conference from 10 through 14 March 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda. Serge Mayaka and Virgile Pace, both multicountry assignment team experts and P4H country focal persons...
ESCOM-CI, essential contributors to primary health care in the RCI
The Etablissements a Base Communautaires in Cote d'Ivoire have been a growing part of the Ivorian healthcare system for 30 years. Providing quality primary health care, they all participate in the state's free health care programs, as well as the AMU. Since the 1990s,...
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...
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...
Soubré workers learn about social protection and health insurance
A workshop on social protection and health insurance brought together workers from the public and private sectors on Saturday November 16, 2024 in Soubré, under the initiative of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung foundation aimed at enhancing their knowledge of these...
ESCom – a successful community-based public-private partnership
30 years of public-private partnership in Côte d'Ivoire, reinforces primary health care in the quest for universal health coverage. This successful model deserves to be better known outside Côte d'Ivoire and French-speaking Africa. In the late 90s, Abidjan began an...
Towards the CSU: Lessons from Tunisia, prospects for Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire
On November 14, 2023, a webinar will be held entitled: "CSU: lessons learned from the Tunisian journey - Regards croisés du Sénégal et de la Côte d'Ivoire." This virtual meeting provides an opportunity to explore a benchmark in the field of social health protection,...
CMU: citizens still dissatisfied
For the past five years, Ivorians have had access to universal health coverage. The Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene is working hard to ensure that enrolment is effective throughout the country. Despite this, people still need to be convinced by the health...
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...
Projet Spark Santé: A catalyst for the operationalization of CMU
On May 6 and 7, 2024, several experts gathered in Abidjan for the closing of the Spark-santé project (Strategic Purchase and Harmonization of Health Financing and Skills) of the World Bank Group, jointly with the Global Finance Facility (GFF).In figures, the World...
Evaluation of CMU implementation by donors
A delegation of World Bank parliamentarians visited Universal Health Coverage enrolment sites in situ. This move was welcomed by the heads of the ministries in charge of social protection and health. The delegation, led by Jamaican parliamentarian Marlène Forte and...
African Health Systems Push for Financial Sustainability at World Health Assembly
African nations are advancing towards sustainable health financing by implementing innovative strategies, legislative reforms, and inter-ministerial collaborations, as highlighted at the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly. The Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly...
Vaccination coverage in Côte d’Ivoire: over 200 billion USD invested by GAVI
Côte d'Ivoire's top health official praised the excellent partnership between his country and Gavi. He pleaded for this collaboration to continue even after the transition out of eligibility, so that the country can continue to capitalize and avoid stock-outs. The...
66% of healthcare in Côte d’Ivoire is financed by domestic resources
Health in Côte d'Ivoire is 44% financed by external resources, announced the Minister in charge of health during a panel discussion organized on Tuesday May 28, 2024 by the Global Fund, the African Union, the GFF, the Pepfar, on the sidelines of the 77th World Health...