Australia’s health budget tops $132bn for 2022-23
Australia's health budget will exceed $132bn for 2022-23, which increased from $62bn for a decade ago due to a rise of healthcare expenditures, the expansion of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, the Covid-19 response and the addition of $2.3bn over four years for...
Oman’s Dhamani Health Insurance Platform onboards over 100 entities
The first 100 stakeholders participating in the delivery of the National Health Insurance Project (Dhamani) have now been onboarded and registered on the Dhamani platform underpinning the implementation of the compulsory health insurance programme in the Sultanate of...
Virtual Roundtable: Strong and resilient health systems in Western and central Africa: What will it take?
The Western and Central Africa Region and the Heath Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank are jointly organizing a high level roundtable on Strong and Resilient Health Systems in West and Central Africa during the 2022 WBG-IMF Spring Meetings....
WEBINAR #2 on social health care reforms and health care financing in the CIS
April 20, 2022 at 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. CET We invite you to share knowledge and regional perspectives on reforms in social protection of health care and health financing in CIS countries. Our speakers will share lessons learned, key achievements and progress toward...
WEBINAR #2 on Social Health Protection and Health Financing Reforms in the CIS
Join us as at we exchange knowledge and regional perspectives of Social health protection and health financing reforms in Commonwealth of Independent States. Our panelists will exchange lessons learned, key achievements, and progress made toward social health...
Relief for the poor as over 300,000 Kenyans enrolled for National Hospital Insurance
Over 326,000 vulnerable households in Nairobi have been registered for the National Hospital Insurance Insurance Fund (NHIF) by the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). The NHIF is part of the government’s universal health care policy to ensure that vulnerable...
P4H Webinar on CIS #1: Presenting executive summary, additional resources and a video of the webinar now available on YouTube
On 16 March 2022 the P4H Network hosted the first of two webinars on social health protection and health financing reforms in three countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). P4H hosted the webinar in collaboration with the World Health...
Cameroon: CSU pilot phase architecture adopted
In the process of implementing As part of this reform of the healthcare system, aimed at guaranteeing equitable access to healthcare for all Cameroonians, the Government has set up a multi-sectoral National Technical Group CSU (GTN-CSU), co-chaired by the...
Cameroon: 5th International Mutuality Day
The 5th International Day of Mutuality in Cameroon will take place from April 26 to 28, 2022 under the theme : " Sécurité Sociale: Une Commune, Une Mutuelle". The JIM 2022 celebration will take place at Douala Town Hall, according to the...
Training workshop on strategic purchasing mechanisms (out put financing) for the CSU
Workshop objectives Enable the various stakeholders in healthcare financing to better understand the operating principles of each strategic purchasing mechanism (out put financing), its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Obtain proposals on the practical...
Health Financing Training in Kep, 29.03-01.04.2022
Fruitful Health Financing Training in Kep with GS-NSPC, WHO, GIZ and P4H!
A new document on the transition to Program Based Budgeting and its implication on health has been posted on the Uganda country page
The report describes Uganda's transition process to programme-based budget, as a means to better align with public policy priorities and enhance accountability and transparency. It also discusses what the implications are for the health sector. The report...
Ethiopia: 8th round of NHA dissemination workshop
The Ministry of Health is organizing a workshop to disseminate the results of the 8th round of National Health Accounts (NHA) to relevant stakeholders and carry out a policy dialogue on selected topics based on the findings of the NHA study. Event Time : 12 Apr 2022...
Côte d’Ivoire: Working session between the Health Financing TWG and the Sustainable Internal Financing TWG3
Event Time : 07 Apr 2022 8:00 am to 07 Apr 2022 9:30 amTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : No
Webinar Series for Awareness-building on DRG for UHC
TARGET PARTICIPANTS: This e-learning course aims at building up knowledge and learning experiences for participants from countries that want to pursue the universal health coverage policy with payment to acute inpatient care with diagnosis-related group tools. The...