Egyptian government inches toward vaccine-for-fee model with private sector
As the government in Egypt continues to vaccinate its population against COVID-19, plans to allow private healthcare companies to sell vaccinations are underway. During a meeting of the House of Representatives Complaints and Suggestions Committee on Monday,...
A new document is available on the South Africa’s country page
A new document has been uploaded on South Africa's country page. The document discusses the development process of the 2019 National Health Insurance (NHI) bill against the backdrop of the country’s political and social context. The document can be...
Civil society organisations, media ready to better Liberia’s health coverage and financing by 2030
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have a critical role in advocating for adequate domestic financing and resource mobilisation in Liberia. One such CSO is the Public Health Initiative Liberia (PHIL), a community health focus organization working to promote and...
Kick-off of the Planning, Financing and Strategic Investment Coordination Group
The new dialogue structure established in the health sector in Mozambique between MoH and partners includes 6 thematic working groups (Service Delivery, Planning, Financing and Strategic Investment (PFSI), Emergencies and public health, Logistics and Pharma,...
Financing Universal Health Coverage despite instability – a webinar organized by WHO and AFRAFRA
In many countries, instability is undermining the state's ability to exercise its sovereign functions and provide basic services to its population, to the point of undermining its legitimacy. These "fragile" situations raise major challenges for progress towards...
WHO Country Office writes official letter to the MOH about support available through ACT-A health systems connector
A Letter to the Ministry of Health and Social Service was sent officially by the WHO Representative (WR) on support available through ACT-A health system connector. The WR (SAGOE-MOSES, Charles) addressing the letter to Executive Director MOHSS (Mr Ben Nangombe)...
Interorganizational and Intersectoral collaboration in Namibia for national budgetary dialogue
The USAID and its implementing partners were actively involved with WHO and MOHSS throughout the process of discussion on ACT-A and deciding the priorities for Namibia. UNICEF was keen to participate in the Essential health service package work. UNICEF, UNFPA, WFP and...
Namibia is developing the Terms of Reference for analytical work under ACT-A initiative
The Ministry of Health and Social Service along with the support of P4H Country Focal Person (CFP) initiated the development of TOR for analytical work under ACT-Accelerator. The TOR on 'Assessing Namibia’s Essential Health Service Package' is being initiated with...
NIGER: FCFA 24.5 billion to strengthen resilience
The Minister of the Interior and Decentralization, Mr Hamadou Adamou Souley, presided over the official launch of the Niger-Chad Emergency Development Program (PDU) in Niamey on the morning of January 26. The aim of the program is to help improve living conditions and...
BENIN: Universal health coverage at the heart of a workshop in Cotonou
" Documentation de processus pour la Couverture sanitaire universelle (Csu) en Afrique sub-saharienne ". Experts are meeting in Cotonou to discuss this topic at a workshop organized by the Centre de recherche en reproduction humaine et en démographie...
Meeting of the Technical Working Group on Health Financing in Côte d’Ivoire
Event Time : 21 Jan 2022 9:00 am to 21 Jan 2022 12:00 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : No
P4H CFP initiated process of developing common understanding and consensus building at the WHO office Namibia on the ACT-A process guide for budgetary dialogue
Following the introduction of the ACT-A process guide to the P4H Country Focal Person (CFP), the CFP initiated the process of consensus building at the WHO Country Office Namibia. Discussions with World Health Organization Representative (WR) Namibia: The P4H CFP...
The Access to COVID-19 Tools – Accelerator (ACT-A) process guide for budgetary dialogue introduced from the P4H Global Coordination Desk to the Country Focal Persons (CFP) Namibia
The Global Coordination Desk Core Team members presented the ACT-A process guide for national budgetary dialogue tool and opportunity to the P4H Country Focal Person (CFP) Namibia on 7th October 2021. The CFP Ethiopia along with the African Regional Office (AFRO)...
Cross country learnings for initiating dialogue in the countries
P4H provided platform and promoted dialogues, experience sharing between countries, regional office, global experts and global coordination desk. The Country Focal Person (CFP) Namibia had the opportunity to have regular interactions with other CFPs like the CFP in...
P4H CFP engaging with the Ministry of Health and Social Service (MOHSS) in Namibia
The P4H Country Focal Person (CFP) Namibia engaged with the head of the Policy and Planning Department in the MOHSS Namibia and conducted an in-depth discussion on the process guide for national budgetary dialogue and the opportunity through ACTA. The discussion...