Khmer Times – NSSF opens to small firms
Khmer Times, November 7, 2017: "Firms employing as few as one member of staff have been urged to register with the National Social Security Fund to obtain benefits for their workers. NSSF director Ouk Samvithya last week said companies of all sizes would now be...
The power of a systemic approach towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nepal
The team of Nepalese leaders participating in the L4UHC programme tackled one of the country’s major health-care bottlenecks: the lack of essential drugs in primary health facilities. The story of this initiative illustrates that advancing toward UHC is not a simple...
Launch of the research for development project (PRD) on the financing of universal health coverage in Senegal UGB / UT / ULiège / ULB / DPRS / ACMU Thursday, November 30, 2017 at Hôtel Terrou-Bi – Dakar
Event Time : 30 Nov 2017 7:30 am to 30 Nov 2017 5:30 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : Nohere
MoH informs about the Government’s intention to start implementing SHI starting with coverage of workers in the civil service.
MoH informs about the Government's intention to start implementing SHI starting with coverage of workers in the civil service. This is announced as a way to start implementation of the SHI scheme in the absence of a legislative basis, and in line with the...
23rd session of the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Public Health in Chad
The 23rd session of the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Public Health of Chad was held from November 20 to 23, 2017 at the Hilton Hotel in N'Djaména under the theme "Meeting the challenges of the effective implementation of the PNDS3 and PRDS3 for the...
Workshop to amend and validate documents and texts on free healthcare.
The implementation of free healthcare measures for women and children under 5 living in Burkina Faso began on April 02, 2016 in three regions (Centre, Hauts-Bassins, Sahel) and rolled out nationwide from June 1, 2016. This implementation was underpinned by the...
Primes maladie : les raisons d’une hausse vertigineuse
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2017/09/27/primes-maladie-raisons-dune-hausse-vertigineuse
Joint ACS-P4H Africa Health Financing meeting – in Accra, Ghana
Event Time : 13 Feb 2018 8:00 am to 15 Feb 2018 4:00 pmTimezone: Event is Conference : No
Benin: end of strike in the health sector
http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20171117-benin-fin-greve-secteur-sante
Workshop on SNFS and FBR strategy Togo December 4-8, 2017
A workshop on the SNFS and the FBR strategy is scheduled in Lomé from December 4 to 8, 2017. This will be an extended technical meeting to move forward with the drafting and finalization of these two important documents. Preparatory documents, including draft...
Meeting of health PTFs on 15/11/2017 on the occasion of the joint GTAM-GAVI mission.
On November 15, from 3pm to 5pm, the TFPs met with the Global Fund team (Jean-Thomas Nouboussi, Portfolio Manager, Francesca Guzzo, Alberic D'Aiglepiere, Natach Heffinck; Sarah Hoibak) and the GAVI SCM (Dr Ahawo Komi M. Alain). The following agenda included speeches...
Sharing analysis on pooling and strategic purchasing – Bart Callewaert, DUE
Here we share two productions by Bart Callewaert of the European Union delegation in Burkina Faso. The presentation is an outstanding poster (in English) presented at the health seminar "Agenda 2030: Towards Universal Health Coverage" held from September 25 to...
The Costs of Delivering Health Services in Indonesia
The central objective of a recently published study on the cost of health service delivery in Indonesia is to provide a better understanding of the cost of delivering health services across the country. The study is expected to inform policy in a number of...
Implementation of the free maternity services policy and its implications for health system governance in Kenya
To move towards universal health coverage, the government of Kenya introduced free maternity services in all public health facilities in June 2013. User fees are, however, important sources of income for health facilities and their removal has implications for the way...
Document sharing: Benin’s National Health Financing Strategy
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