Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the Abuja declaration: Honouring the pledge
The 2001 Abuja declaration is a pledge by the African Union member states to allocate at least 15% of their national budgets each year to improving their healthcare systems. However, for the countries in the SADC, fulfilling this pledge has been a challenge. Having...
A review of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health services under insurance regimes: A policy implementation gap hindering universal health coverage (UHC) in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
One of the key targets of sustainable development goal 3.8 is UHC which requires that all persons irrespective of their social economic background should have access to quality health services when required without incurring financial hardship. To attain this goal,...
Japan braces itself against the COVID-19 pandemic with the largest ever budget for 2022
Japan's cabinet has approved a record ¥107.60 trillion budget for 2022 to fight against the pandemic and increasing social security costs. Social security spending is more than a third of the overall budget to address the medical needs of the aging population. The...
Maldives join hands with Indonesia to develop their health sector
Maldives has signed an MoU with Indonesia to share knowledge, initiate expert visits, strengthen health regulatory capacity and provide support in healthcare services, health resilience, health financing, health human resources, and health technology. To know more,...
P4H 2020-2021 annual review
What happened between June 2020 and June 2021? The P4H Network's annual review takes a look back at the highlights of healthcare and social protection financing. Download the full document here.
Burkina Faso’s 2022 budget: health accounts for 4.93% of the budget
CIFOEB is the center for information, training and study on budgeting. The national budget, adopted on December 16 by the National Assembly, has been put under the microscope by this center, which gives its reading. For Executive Director Youssouf Ouattara, there are...
Senegal: 20 billion increase in the Ministry of Health budget
The draft 2022 budget for the Ministry of Health and Social Action is set at 270,110,604,494 F CFA in commitment authorizations (AE) and 235,996,717,777 F CFA in payment credits (CP). Unlike 2021, when the budget was 216 billion CFA francs, it has been revised upwards...
Free health care in Niger: the Ministry of Health reassures the public
On Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Public Health, Dr Ranaou Abaché, hosted a press briefing on the debate born on social networks around the authorities' suspension of free assisted childbirth in public health facilities. In his...
The Fifth National Strategic Plan for a Comprehensive, Multi-Sectoral Response to HIV/AIDS (2019-2023)
Moving Toward Ending AIDS as a Public Health Threat by 2025.
Senegal: Groupe L4UHC study tour mission report
BENIN: Publication of a report on social protection and health rights
Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures: Determinants and impacts on the livelihoods of urban households in selected Sudanese states
Understanding the characteristics of individuals or households that are most at risk of incurring catastrophic health expenditures could help in targeted policies to ensure financial risk protection among the most vulnerable. Researchers in Sudan investigated the...
Sudan receives first shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines
On Wednesday, the 6th of October, 2021 the Sudanese Ministry of Health received its first shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. The plan of the Sudanese government is to vaccinate at least 20% of its population, that is, 8.4 million people out of the total population...
Ghana receives additional USD 200 million financing for COVID-19 response interventions
The government of Ghana has received an additional USD 200 million financing towards the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency preparedness and response project (EPRP). The amount will enable the government to fund the procurement of vaccines to inoculate about 7.6 million...
TOGO: INAM raises awareness of its new list of reimbursable medicines
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