Uganda national minimum healthcare package- a case study
The basic essential healthcare benefit package (EHB) policy interventions aim to optimize efficiency while extending coverage by increasing equity of access to the defined benefits. Many low and middle-income countries introduced or updated EHBs in the 2000s. Uganda’s...
Analytical review of health care reforms in Uganda and its implication on health equity
Uganda Government has continued to strengthen the country’s health system by initiating policy reforms aimed at enhancing equity in health care with the goal of attaining universal health coverage. These reforms include the abolition of user fees and the introduction...
Feasibility and desirability of scaling up community–based health insurance (CBHI) in rural communities in Uganda: lessons from Kisiizi Hospital CBHI scheme
CBHI schemes have been implemented world over to contribute to initial steps for national health insurance schemes, and universal health coverage. CBHI schemes aim to reduce out-of-pocket payments, and improve access to healthcare services in addition to raising...
Getting it right: Uganda’s proposed national health insurance scheme (NHIS)
Uganda is a signatory to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and therefore is committed to attaining universal health coverage (UHC) for all. According to WHO, the goal of UHC is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering...
Uganda health financing strategy 2015/16 – 2024/25
This second Health Financing Strategy (HFS) for Uganda came at a time of global commitment towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This strategy served as a critical element in Uganda’s pathway to achieving the health-related...
Health for All: Uganda’s cabinet approves the national health insurance (NHIS) bill 2019
On June 24, 2019, the cabinet of Uganda approved the NHIS bill 2019, achieving an important milestone in delivering health for all. The approval was a significant accomplishment as discussions around the bill started over 17 years prior, as stated by the Hon. Dr. Jane...
Burkina Faso: ONIDS calls for effective universal health coverage
l'Onids est .L'organisation pour de nouvelles initiatives en développement et en santé (Onids) is a Burkinabe association committed to promoting and protecting the social and health rights of people, particularly the most disadvantaged. This Tuesday, August 17,...
Burkina Faso: Towards validation of a general nomenclature of acts for healthcare professionals
The Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie universelle organized a workshop in Ouagadougou on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, to validate the results of the general nomenclature of acts for healthcare professionals in Burkina Faso. Once finalized, this general nomenclature of...
Burkina Faso-CSU: CSOs discuss in Ouagadougou
The Access to Essential Medicines Network (RAME) organized a civil society meeting on universal health coverage (UHC) this Wednesday, August 4, 2021 in Ouagadougou. This meeting is an opportunity to gather the views of the players involved on the implementation...
Burkina Faso-Public social welfare institutions: sales of FCFA 44 billion by 2020
Between 2019 and 2020, sales by Etablissements publics de prévoyance sociale (EPPS) rose by 9.7%, from FCFA 244.82 billion to FCFA 268.72 billion, an increase of FCFA 23.89 billion. These EPPSs are the Caisse Autonome de Retraite des Fonctionnaires (CARFO) , the...
Côte d’Ivoire: Minister of Health takes guided tour of CNAM
Minister Adama Kamara's visit to the premises of the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie gives fresh impetus to the continuation of the project. Couverture Maladie Universelle, created by la loi n°2014-131 du 24 mars 2014, aims to offer...
Côte d’Ivoire: A plea for health insurance for farmers
The Minister of Employment and Social Protection, Me Adama Kamara, has pleaded with the government and the President of the Republic for health and retirement insurance for Ivorian farmers. Minister Kamara, who is also Chairman of the Interministerial Committee...
A policy brief published on health financing in response to COVID-19 in Kyrgyzstan
WHO Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with WHO Country Office in Kyrgyzstan and WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing published a report titled “Health financing in Kyrgyzstan: obstacles and opportunities in the response to COVID-19” (2021)....
Belarus is developing a vaccine against COVID-19 hoping to release it for mass use in 2023
Health Minister of Belarus Dmitry Pinevich (on the photo) announced that by 2023 the home-grown vaccine made in Belarus would be released for mass use. This information was made public when the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko visited the high-tech biological...
Armenia is encouraging vaccination against COVID-19 by mandating biweekly PCR tests for the unvaccinated
According to the Minister of Health of Armenia Anahit Avanesyan (on the photo), persons unvaccinated from COVID-19 will have to take a PCR test for coronavirus twice a month. This policy will affect at least school teachers and university professors, employees of...