Ethiopia first country to pilot the latest version of the WHO’s Health Financing Progress Matrix
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), developed by WHO’s Department of Health Systems Governance & Financing, assesses country health financing systems against a set of evidence-based benchmarks. The WHO developed and released version 2 of the HFPM in late...
5th Meeting of the Montreux Collaborative on Fiscal Space, Public Financial Management and Health Financing
Meeting background: Since 2014 WHO has convened the Montreux Collaborative bi-annual meeting bringing together experts and partners to discuss the critical relationship between fiscal space, public financial management (PFM) and health financing towards advancing...
The Healthcare Law Review: Vietnam
https://thelawreviews.co.uk/title/the-healthcare-law-review/vietnam
Viet Nam Social Security staff trained to better understand and respond to health insurance members’ needs
https://ilo.org/hanoi/Informationresources/Publicinformation/newsitems/WCMS_823245/lang--en/index.htm
BURKINA FASO: How to finance healthcare systems in West Africa?
How to finance healthcare systems in West Africa? The question was at the heart of a virtual round table on financing healthcare systems in West Africa. The organizer, Gilles Yabi, head of the Wathi think tank, , believes that the issue of...
Workshop to develop the framework for the National Platform for Coordination of Health Financing (PNCFS)
Workshop to develop the framework for the national health financing coordination platform from September 15 to 17, 2021 in Yamoussoukro. Event Time : 15 Sep 2021 6:00 am to 17 Sep 2021 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : No
TOGO-AMU: Parliament adopts draft law
On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, the Togolese Parliament unanimously adopted the bill instituting universal health insurance in Togo. This adoption marks a new stage in the realization of Togo's ambition for universal health coverage, almost ten years after the...
TOGO-INAM: Winner of the ISSA Best Practices Award
The Institut National d'Assurance Maladie (INAM) received this Tuesday, October 05, 2021, the Certificate of Merit with Special Mention at the ISSA 2020 Good Practice Award for Africa. This distinction was awarded to by the International Social Security...
BENIN: Free FP, a relief for the indigent fund
In 2005, the Beninese government set up the Indigent Health Fund to facilitate access to healthcare for the underprivileged. In the field, family planning appears as a means of reducing expenditure on this Fund. Free access to FP services to reduce...
COTE d’IVOIRE: The national platform for coordinating health financing sets up a working framework
A workshop was held in Yamoussoukro to develop a framework for the National Platform for the Coordination of Health Financing. This platform is intended as a forum for exchange, with the remit of establishing consensus on healthcare expenditure targets, ensuring the...
Universal Health Coverage: Case Study of Israel’s managed care model
Israel has a long-standing commitment to universal health coverage through government and non-governmental organizations. The country’s National Health Insurance System (NHIS) covers all permanent residents, accounting for 98% of its resident population. Even...
New Israel health financing/social health protection documents available
We are pleased to draw your attention to four new reports and journal papers on our Israel country page. Three peer-reviewed papers discuss Israel’s public-private partnership in delivering health care services in the presence of the National Health Insurance Law...
South Sudan receives its first consignment of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines
South Sudan received the first consignment of 152,950 doses of the Johnson & Johnson ‘Janssen’ COVID-19 vaccines on 14th September, 2021. These single dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are the third batch of vaccine shipments to South Sudan through the...
Sudan receives over 350,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines
On 11 September, 2021 Sudan received a shipment of 357,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Germany. This marks the fourth shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses Sudan has received since March 2021. Previously, the country received over one million doses...
Sierra Leone gets another 96,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
Sierra Leone got another consignment of 96,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine last week through COVAX scheme. Earlier this year, Sierra Leone’s ministry of health received 260,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from china and western donor countries through the...