Nigeria: Highlights of the Health Sector in 2020
In this article from This Day, a brief on Nigeria Health system reforms as per end of 2020: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/12/31/highlights-of-the-health-sector-in-2020/ "(...) While launching the revised implementation guidelines for the Basic Healthcare...
Ten years of free, performance-based financing in Burundi – what lessons can be learned?
Ten years of the " Free-Performance-Based Financing " policy in Burundi - what lessons can we learn from it ? Blog published on December 13 2020 by Alexandre Nimubona click here to access content
Kidnapping d’un employé du Laboratoire national, les tests de Covid-19 paralysés
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/224711/kidnapping-dun-employe-du-laboratoire-national-les-tests-de-covid-19-paralyses
Workshop on motivations for joining mutual health insurance companies
From December 08 to 09, 2020, was held in the Maurice Yaméogo meeting room of Excellence Hôtel in Koudougou, a workshop to reflect on the motivations for joining social mutuals in Burkina Faso. This workshop, co-organized by the Direction Générale de la Protection...
Call for reproductive health-sensitive budgets
Gustave Bambara is Director of Population Policy at the Ministry of the Economy. He is also a member of the CSU Leadership Training Group. He justifies the holding of this workshop by the fact that, like the other countries of West Africa, Burkina Faso is facing...
Mozambique’s Ministry of Health issues its first PEFA Strategy
Mozambique's Ministry of Health has launched its PEFA strategy to respond to challenges identified in the PEFA report (2020). In the PEFA diagnostic, the area that presents more challenges is credibility of the budget, especially execution of funds and of...
Lessons from Rapid Implementation: how the revamped system to purchase COVID services in Indonesia affected its hospitals
The authors: Dr Anooj Pattnaik (ThinkWell Global, Deputy Director for Learning), Ryan Nugraha (ThinkWell Indonesia), Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany (ThinkWell Indonesia), and Catherine Connor (Program Director at ThinkWell). The spread of COVID-19 around the world has...
What is going on in Kazakhstan?
Recently, the Minister of the national economy of Kazakhstan Ruslan Dalenov presented the results of socio-economic development since the beginning of 2020. At the end of November, inflation was 7.3%, and the GDP decreased by 2.8%. Inflation, combined with the...
Republic of Korea’s COVID-19 preparedness and Response
World Bank's discussion paper, Nov 2020 devoted to Republic of Korea's COVID-19 preparedness and Response. It emphasizes that post-MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) legislative and regulatory reforms enhanced the public health preparedness and response system in...
Togo’s Institut National de l’Assurance Maladie (INAM) sheds light on its drug reimbursement mechanism – November 9, 2020 in Lomé (Togo)
Health: INAM clarifies its drug reimbursement mechanism ©AfreePress-(Lomé, November 17, 2020)-The information circulating on social networks reporting that the Institut National de l'Assurance Maladie (INAM) takes into account the factory purchase price of medicines...
Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm / Public launch event: 9 December 2020 – 15:00 – 16:30 CET
Public launch event - 9th December 2020 - 15:00 – 16:30 CET The report “Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm” to be released at this event is based on the newly updated Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). It is the 4th in a series of...
COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor, Republic of Korea
The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies published a report on the Health System Response Monitor (HSRM). It is designed to collect and organize up-to-date information on how countries are responding to the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19)...
2020 presidential election: the 12 challenges facing the nation, according to the Free Afrik institute
In the run-up to the November 22, 2020 presidential election, the Free Afrik institute has conducted a study entitled "Burkina Faso at the crossroads: the Nation's 12 challenges". It was made public to women and men in the media at a series of training sessions held...
Alex Tsoy met the WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and A4HP representatives
Last week Alexey Tsoy, the Ministry of healthcare of Kazakhstan, held an online meeting with representatives of international and non-governmental organizations. The meeting participants got acquainted with the current situation in the healthcare system of the...
Côte d’Ivoire: Fiscal Annex 2021 and CMU
In this article, the KOACI newspaper reports on the measures taken in the appendix to the 2021 Finance Act concerning VAT exemptions and aimed at controlling the cost of healthcare reimbursed by the CMU....