The success of primary health care is a movement around the world in support of primary health care as the most effective strategy for achieving universal health coverage
From 25 to 26 October, the Global Conference on Primary Health Care was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, together with WHO, UNICEF and the Government of Kazakhstan. The countries have signed the Astana Declaration on PHC "From Almaty to Universal Healthcare Coverage and...
Functional team meeting n°7 on the GFF of October 24, 2018
In preparation for the Oslo meeting, co-chaired by Burkina Faso's Head of State, the functional team wanted to have a solid investment case. But at the October 24 meeting, it was clear that the DI was not yet ready. In particular, the stakeholders alerted the...
A new General Manager for CNAMU in Burkina Faso
The "Installation" is the diction of a formula consecrated by the Minister or his representative. Nothing more, nothing less? A symbolic moment, then, to mark the decision taken by the Council of Ministers last July. An opportunity for Dr Yves Kinda to explain this...
Khmer Times: Health officials asked to curb discrimination (against NSSF’s social health insurance users)
Khmer Times, 1 November 2018: " Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the Health Ministry to monitor hospitals providing free medical check-ups and treatments to garment workers. Speaking to garment workers from four factories in Kandal province yesterday, Mr Hun Sen...
P4HC+ Regular Meeting, 31st October 2018 at World Bank Office
Agenda: Sharing on the results of National Health Accounts 2012-2016 by WHO team Social Protection Law updates by GIZ CIM experts Impressions on Workshop on Health Equity (co-organized by GIZ, WHO, NIPH on 3-7 September 2018) by Kumanan/WHO H-EQIP mission updates by...
Réunion SG FS CSU
Event Time : 22 Oct 2018 1:00 pm to 22 Oct 2018 3:00 pmTimezone: Event is Conference : No
Health Financing Atlas, WHO/EMRO, 2018
The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) is going to launch the EMR Health Financing Atlas 2018 during its Regional Committee Meeting, 15-18 October 2018. The document has benefited from the support and technical insights of health financing...
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...
SNFS: final draft by the Editorial Committee before open discussion
In this first week of October 2018, a final version of the SNFS was handed over to its hierarchy by the Editorial Committee. We are sharing this document, the operationalization plan, WHO comments on both, a summary of the Committee's work and the ToR for the...
Exchange on the “prioritization” part of the DI – GFF – Burkina Faso
The draft report on diagnostic analysis and choice of investment priorities produced by the consultants will be discussed on Thursday September 27 in the DGESS meeting room, starting at 9 a.m. Event Time : 27 Sep 2018 7:00 am to 27 Sep 2018 10:00 amTimezone: Event is...
Global Fund Mission – October 2018 – Burkina Faso
The Global Fund's next mission to Burkina Faso. It will include at least Portfolio Manager Jean-Thomas Naboussi and Senior Program Officer Fransesca Guzzo. Event Time : 08 Oct 2018 7:00 am to 13 Oct 2018 2:00 pmTimezone: Event is Conference : No
Launch of a study on expenditure efficiency – by and for the Ministry of Health – Burkina Faso
On his arrival last year, Burkina Faso's Minister of Health was quick to call for an analysis of the efficiency of healthcare spending. In parallel with the GFF process, it commissioned an internal study to address some of its concerns: is the current allocation of...
Publication of an article on the impact of free access and cost reduction
https://academic.oup.com/heapol/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/heapol/czy077/5107204 User fee reduction and elimination policies have been extensively researched, but there is little rigorous evidence of their lasting effects on service use. The article...
GAVI joint mission
The joint GAVI Alliance mission to Abidjan took place from September 10 to 14. Joint missions are a review and pre-programming of Alliance support, including technical support. WHO, Unicef and the World Bank are all members of the Alliance. Côte d'Ivoire is about to...
Civil society workshop on health financing
A workshop organized by the NGO ASAPSU, with support from the Global Fund, WHO, the World Bank and the French Embassy, was held in Abidjan from September 19 to 21. The aim was to prepare civil society to create a platform and strengthen its skills to engage in...