Mozambique to join PHC Improvement Initiative with specific work on primary health financing
Mozambique will be one of the 16 countries included in the first phase of the PHCPI initiative, led by WHO, World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. PHCPI aims at improving Primary Health Care measurement, with an important focus on health financing. The...
User fees collection and use remains highly complex in Mozambique
An analysis carried out by the Ministry of Health with 2017 data confirms that user fees are collected at public health units with a high administrative complexity: Funds are registered as revenue, so they have to be declared at a Provincial Tax Office, then to the...
ILO: Only 6% of Mozambique’s economically active population pays social security contributions
Social protection schemes in Mozambique increase covered population over time. As social protection platform advances, it can be a catalyst to reach comprehensive social health protection in Mozambique, as contribution schemes could be shared in the future. Only 6% of...
Workshop on Public Social Health Insurance Design for Mozambique
An Inter-Ministerial Workshop was held in Maputo from 12th to 14th September, 2018, with the objective of aligning perspectives and start designing options for a possible Public Social Health Insurance. Over 30 participants from different Ministries included in the...
Mozambique considering regulation of user fees in hospitals and introduction of National Health Insurance
The Mozambique government is considering the introduction of Social Health Insurance and the regulation of fees charged by hospital units as part of the sector’s financing strategy, a government source announced. The ideas were presented on Wednesday by Daniel Simone...
International Conference in Maputo on Health Financing and PFM in Health Systems
Maputo hosted on 28th and 29th August an International Conference on Health Financing and Public Financial Management in Health Systems, organized by the Civil Society Support Forum (MASC). Researchers, policy-makers and Civil Society members debated around user fees,...
Mozambican Minister of Health reflects on challenges in the Spanish press: Increased perspective of domestic resource mobilization for the coming decades
In the framework of he GAVI meeting in Madrid, Nazira Abdulá reflects on the main challenges of health in Mozambique, including the role of health promotion workers and traditional healers in tackling infectious diseases and the perspective of increased domestic...
The World Bank injects $105 Million to improve Primary Health Care in Mozambique, with disbursements linked to performance and health financing
The World Bank approved $105 million equivalent in non-reimbursable grants for the Government of Mozambique’s Primary Health Care Strengthening Program‐for‐Results. Of this amount, $25 million equivalent is provided by the Global Finance Facility (GFF)*, and $80...
HFS_Workshop September 2016
Workshop held on September 15 2016 to: Discuss and share comments on preliminary draft Define and propose the scope of the financing strategy Define next steps Update the workplan for the HFS Was attended by Ministry of Health, Ministry of Economy and Finance...
DPC MISAU Circulates Latest HFS
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Workshop on the drafting process of the health financing strategy
During the workshop, the results of the following studies were presented: Situational analysis of health financing in Mozambique Preliminary results of the NHA Medication expenditures for AIDS Panorma of health insurance Performance based financing WHO, WB, Swiss...
Joint P4H mission in August 2014
WHO, ILO, SDC and GIZ participate in a P4H mission from 25-29 August 2014. The objectives of the mission are to Share information on P4H objectives, principles, and cooperation methods with social health protection development partners in Mozambique Define a framework...
Adoption of the new National Development Strategy 2015-2035
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Request for support from MISAU – April 2014
On 30 April 2014, the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) office in Maputo receives a formal request from the Ministry of Health (MISAU) in Mozambique for P4H support to the process of developing a Health Financing Strategy. The request has been shared with Daniel...
In the pipeline / prospective P4H country +++ SDC initiating P4H collaboration
From: Kern Debora, SDC Date: Tuesday, 17 December 2013 To: P4H SG and TCG Subject: P4H in Mozambique? Dear Focal Points of the P4H network I hope this email finds you all well. You might be informed that Mozambique established during the last months a quite...