Monthly coordination meeting of health sector TFPs
The monthly coordination meeting of health sector partners was held on September 15, 2021 under the presidency of the European Union. Presentations were given on the situation of Covid-19 by WHO ; INITIATIVE (AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis) by Expertise France on a...
Ministry of Health and public university start hospital costing process
MOH and UEM public university (the oldest and most important in Mozambique) are starting a process of costing of health services, focused on hospitals. The objective is to know the costs of service provision, as well as to train hospital managers in cost accounting....
BURKINA-Hemodialysis: an annual government subsidy of 300 million CFA francs
The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Régional de Ouahigouya (in the Nord region) now has an operational hemodialysis unit. The inauguration of the infrastructure was followed by the launch of the unit's activities on Saturday September 11, 2021, in the presence of the...
BURKINA: Government continues to invest in community healthcare
In line with the regulations of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), the government has initiated a far-reaching reform of public finance management, with the introduction of the program budget. With the adoption by Parliament in 2017 of a budget...
GABON: Operationalization of the reinforcement of the technical platforms of health structures
The Minister of Health, Dr. Guy Patrick Obiang Ndong and the Minister of Social Affairs, Madame Prisca Koho Nlend, presided over the On September 17, an important meeting was held in the presence of the General Managers of health establishments and services,...
P4H is looking for a P4H Health financing & Data expert
The consultant will participate in a set of workstreams of the P4H network workplan that corresponds to a sub-section (“Health Financing & data”) of one specific output (“collaboration with other Health Systems’ Strengthening networks”). His / her functions will...
Law No. 1/12 OF MAY 12, 2020 ESTABLISHING THE CODE OF SOCIAL PROTECTION IN BURUNDI
Latvia has successfully joined the European COVID Digital Certificate
The Republic of Latvia has successfully joined the European COVID Digital Certificate gateway, which will further ensure the exchange of data with the member states of the European Union (EU) on the information included in Digital Certificates, according to the...
P4H/SFHA NIGER: focal point takes office
Jean-François Caremel has been P4H/SFHA's Focal Person in Niger since August 21. SFHA members helped to define its role with the Niger Ministry of Health and to recruit its staff at the WHO country office. Trained as an economist and political scientist, since 2011 he...
NIGER-ENABEL: Contribution to the national CMU strategy
As part of the definition of the health component of the Niger-Belgium 2022-2026 cooperation program, a workshop was held from September 08 to 10, 2021, which clarified ENABEL's support for the national Universal Health Coverage strategy as part of the implementation...
The P4H Coordination Desk is looking for a P4H IT operations specialist
The consultant is expected to be an interface between the IT experts/companies contracted by the P4H Coordination Desk (P4H-CD) and users of the P4H digital platform, to technically support the P4H Network IT team in the management of the P4H digital platform and to...
Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs solicits increased health financing from the Government
As reported by Kaija Kasekamp at the platform of European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, multiple analyses have indicated that the social tax-based health financing system in Estonia is not sustainable. Estonia's working-age population is...
Financing nursing care more than doubled in Estonia in 2021
According to materials prepared by Triin Habicht, a renown health economist from Estonia (WHO consultant) and her colleague Kaija Kasekamp (University of Tartu), the Estonian Insurance Fund started financing nursing services in assisted living facilities since 2020...
Now available: Executive summary of the first of the four-part webinar series on Health Financing in India
The webinar series titled Health Financing in India was launched to bring together national and international health systems and financing experts, economists, and researchers to discuss the burning health financing and social health protection issues in the country...
Health System Performance Assessment Framework in Estonia as part of Structural Reforms
Since 2017, the European Commission has provided expertise to help design over 1000 reform projects in 27 Member States through the Structural Reform Support Programme. As of 2021, the Technical Support Instrument (TSI), its successor, continues to support reforms...