Joint Annual Review and Roadmap for the Health Financing Strategy – October 2011
25-26 Oct 2011: The Joint Review Mission (JRM) was held on 25 – 26 October, and focused on trends in health financing, as well as the challenges of funding key aspects of service delivery. Notable topics of discussion were: - the wage bill; incentives for health...
Joint Annual Review – Health Financing Synthesis Paper – October 2011
In preparation for the Joint Annual Review Meeting on 25-26 Oct, the P4H network partners jointly developed a health financing synthesis paper. The key objectives were to maintain the momentum of the health financing strategy development process, and to make...
National Health Insurance Scheme – progress update – April 2011
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) bill has been referred back to cabinet by the Solicitor General in view of changes introduced into the document without being endorsed by cabinet. The NHIS Task Force is in the process of preparing a cabinet paper, which...
Ugandan State Minister of Health at UHC conference in Berlin – November 2010
The Ugandan Minister of State for Health, Dr. Richard Nduhuura, participated in a ministerial conference on health financing and universal coverage, as well as attending the P4H Open Forum in November 2010 in Berlin. Dr. Nduhuura expressed his appreciation for the...
Initiation of health financing strategy process -/10/2010
In response to the recommendations of the Joint Review Mission (JRM), confirmed by the International Health Partnership (IHP) JANS assessment and based on the health financing review, the Ministry of Health Planning Department (MoHPD) initiated the health financing...
JANS – July 2010
One of the recommendations of the International Health Partnership (IHP) JANS assessment related to universal coverage and social health protection was to speed up the health financing strategy development process. Uganda_JANS_report_January_2011
2nd P4H mission: in depth discussion of health financing options – February 2010
The P4H network supported in-depth discussions of the health financing options and recommendations of the 2009 P4H mission report in Feb 2010 in Kampala. The team recognized the need to provide more details on the pros and cons of the different options, and to provide...
Health financing review – January 2010
The Ministry of Health (MoH) and World Health Organization (WHO) carried out a health financing review supported by P4H to contribute to a deeper understanding of possible health financing options and to inform the planned health financing strategy process, including...
P4H Mission – August 2009
The P4H mission included an assessment of the proposed National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), in particular the part it can play in helping to achieve universal coverage and social health protection (SHP), its links to health reform and the broader social protection...
UHC/SHP part of national health policy – June 2009
The concept of social health protection (SHP) and the role of the Ministry of Health (MoH) as steward in the transition towards universal health coverage have been included in the national health policy 2010-2020. Agreement has also been reached on the development of...
First contact with P4H – February 2009
Providing for Health (P4H) support has been initiated following an invitation by the Government of the Republic of Uganda to a sensitization workshop in Feb 2009 for different stakeholders including Parliament to discuss the principles of social health insurance (SHI)...