EU and African Union sign partnership to scale up preparedness for health emergencies
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched a new partnership initiative to strengthen the capacity of Africa CDC to prepare for and respond to public health threats in...
Cameroon: Stakeholders finetune govt Coronavirus response strategy
Stakeholders, partners and other actors involved in the fight against the COVID-19 have hailed government for the efficient plan put in place to fight against the pandemic. They hailed the response plan at the end of a three-day consultation meeting organized by the...
Les autorités sanitaires redoutent une seconde vague de Covid-19 en Haïti
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/224787/les-autorites-sanitaires-redoutent-une-seconde-vague-de-covid-19-en-haiti
Recommandation : Initiative Covid-19 au Collège de France (Vidéos)
Initiative Covid-19 au Collège de France Réflexion multidisciplinaire de professeurs du Collège de France sur la pandémie et ses conséquences sanitaires, politiques, juridiques sociologiques et socio-économiques...
Myanmar established fund to purchase COVID-19 vaccines
The National-Level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 30-12-2020 formed a Fund Management Sub-committee on the Purchase of COVID-19 Vaccines. The sub-committee has opened the COVID-19 Vaccination Fund at...
UHC in State Counsellor’s New Year’s Speech
Myanmar's State Counsellor mentioned UHC in her New Year's Speech. See page 6 in attached link. https://www.facebook.com/state.counsellor/posts/2170201099780761 The unofficial translation would be - "....... Universal Health Coverage is a promise we...
France: Fareva, the first healthcare company financed by insurers’ stimulus funds
"Since the beginning of the health crisis, the government has been fighting with insurers to get them to help support the French economy (...) According to the closing announced on December 14, the three healthcare funds have been endowed with a total of 780 million...
Senegal: Health: Pr Seydi reveals the factors that helped finance the construction of Smit.
With this article https://www.dakaractu.com/Sante-Ces-facteurs-qui-ont-favorise-le-financement-de-la-construction-du-Smit-devoiles-par-le-Pr-Seydi_a198052.html from Dakar Actu, listen to Pr Seydi in a 6-minute video
Senegal: Health: Pr Seydi reveals the factors that helped finance the construction of Smit.
With this article https://www.dakaractu.com/Sante-Ces-facteurs-qui-ont-favorise-le-financement-de-la-construction-du-Smit-devoiles-par-le-Pr-Seydi_a198052.html from Dakar Actu, listen to Pr Seydi in a 6-minute video
Nigeria: Highlights of the Health Sector in 2020
In this article from This Day, a brief on Nigeria Health system reforms as per end of 2020: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/12/31/highlights-of-the-health-sector-in-2020/ "(...) While launching the revised implementation guidelines for the Basic Healthcare...
Ten years of free, performance-based financing in Burundi – what lessons can be learned?
Ten years of the " Free-Performance-Based Financing " policy in Burundi - what lessons can we learn from it ? Blog published on December 13 2020 by Alexandre Nimubona click here to access content
Myanmar’s health transitions
On the journey towards the universal health coverage (UHC), there is no one-size-fits-all formula. As countries strive to attain the goals of UHC via their own unique maps and routes, it is essential to regularly assess the progress against the context specific to a...
Kidnapping d’un employé du Laboratoire national, les tests de Covid-19 paralysés
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/224711/kidnapping-dun-employe-du-laboratoire-national-les-tests-de-covid-19-paralyses
Workshop on motivations for joining mutual health insurance companies
From December 08 to 09, 2020, was held in the Maurice Yaméogo meeting room of Excellence Hôtel in Koudougou, a workshop to reflect on the motivations for joining social mutuals in Burkina Faso. This workshop, co-organized by the Direction Générale de la Protection...
Call for reproductive health-sensitive budgets
Gustave Bambara is Director of Population Policy at the Ministry of the Economy. He is also a member of the CSU Leadership Training Group. He justifies the holding of this workshop by the fact that, like the other countries of West Africa, Burkina Faso is facing...