Document patrage: proceedings of SGTT RAMU n°4
Where the SGTT RAMU makes a critical analysis of the draft law

Document sharing: analysis of the RAMU for the implementation of the AM component of ARCH in Benin
Benin was in danger of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, i.e. the UHIP experiment with its mixed results, to embark on the highly ambitious ARCH project. It is to be hoped that this risk will be minimized by the production of this document, which makes an...
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...

Establishing a Routine Health Services Costing System
Awareness of the costs of health care services is a prerequisite to deliver them effectively and efficiently in the context of scarcely available financial resources, and aids managers to optimally deliver health care. For social health protection schemes knowledge of...

Joint workshop on Equity: Concepts, Tools and Methods for Analysts and Users (September 3-7)
The US Center for Disease Control, Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine and P4H joined financial resource for the National Institute of Public Health to facilitate a workshop on Equity and UHC. The workshop aimed at raising general awareness on equity amongst...

Special P4HC+ Meeting on Quality of Care Indicators
To inform the development of the M&E tool for the National Social Protection Policy Framework, a special meeting was held on August 31st by P4HC+, attended by representatives of HP+, GIZ, WHO, USAID and agencies making up the pooled funding arrangement H-EQIP...

Joint meeting between the Social Assistance Group and P4HC+
On August 20th P4HC+ joint the Social Assistance Group’s meeting to take stock of respective activities and exchange updates. The opportunity was also taken to have Robert Kolesar of Health Policy Plus (HP+) present his work-in-progress on a Monitoring and Evaluation...

Household air pollution study
With technical and financial support from the WHO, the French Ministry of Health has launched a study into household air pollution (HAP). A little-known and little-studied area, PAH may account for more than half of pollution-related health problems, and represents...
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,...

Kenya’s 2018-2022 Roadmap to Universal Health Coverage
The Government of Kenya has shown commitment to implementing Universal Health Coverage as one of its "Big Four Agenda" with the aim to ensure that all individuals and communities in Kenya have access to quality essential health services without...

Progress of the work of the new Committee in charge of the SNFS in Burkina Faso
Burkina's Ministry of Health decided in early 2018 to review the SNFS, which had been transmitted to the Council of Ministers in late 2017, taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the need to introduce the document with an operationalization plan. The group in...

Document sharing : CSU and the informal sector
Two World Bank publications on the informal sector and CSU, in French, with case studies from West Africa (Senegal, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire). These documents are an excellent capitalization of the issue, particularly for West Africa, essential for an overview...

August 27, 2018, third meeting of the intervention prioritization subgroup – GFF Burkina Faso
Led by the Director of Family Health (DSF), the sub-group is responsible for proposing a prioritization of interventions. The Nutrition Division is doing identical work in parallel, before pooling the results. Prioritization using the CHOICE tool was abandoned in...
Meeting of the SRMNIA-N sub-group for prioritizing cost-effective interventions on August 7, 2018.
On August 07, 2018 was held in the conference room of the DSF, the meeting of the subgroup prioritization of cost-efficient interventions of SRMNIA-N focused on the prioritization of interventions of the Investment Dossier.

Document sharing: report on free healthcare in Niger August 2018
The CSU in Niger starts with free access and is financed by domestic resources. PTFs can help by participating in the invoice and supporting a professional management system. This analysis and the recommendations made suggest a way to make the free service functional...