On July 2025, representatives of governments, the private sector and technical and financial partners met in Benin for the first high-level conference on health financing in Africa, organized by the private health sector platform.
Benin’s private health sector platform has organized a high-level conference from July 10-12, 2025 on health financing in Africa. With the support of the Ministry of Health and the West African Federation of the Private Health Sector, and financial backing from the World Health Organization, PSI/ABMS and others, representatives of governments, the private sector and technical and financial partners met in Cotonou. The central theme was “ Building resilient health systems: leveraging public-private partnerships for sustainable health financing”. The main objective of the participants was to rethink health financing in Africa through innovative and solid public-private partnerships, thus laying the foundations for sustainable financing.
In view of the current context, with decreasing international support for development, including the health sector, it is essential to find a new efficient and effective way of financing health systems. In Benin, there was an opportunity to discuss, among other things, successful experiences and their sharing, the promotion of local financing (with a growing share of the public budget) and ensuring fair and equitable systems.
