HEALTH FINANCING PROGRESS MATRIX 2.0 Accelerating progress to UHC – LAUNCH EVENT
Please join us next Wednesday 16 December from 14:30-15:30 CET for the launch of the Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 (HFPM). I would also like to convey my sincere wishes that this is the last event that WHO’s health financing team will organize as part of the...
Geneva Health Forum (GHF) 16th November 2020 Session
On 16th November 2020, the Geneva Health Forum held a session titled "Extending social health protection, promoting equity”. Details of the session: https://dev.ghf2020.org/session-2-5.php You can see also the link of the video; https://youtu.be/HHemhvmh2X0 ...
Les Pays à faible revenu ne devraient pas recevoir le/s vaccin/s COVID-19 -à grande échelle- avant 2022-2023 – The Econonomist
Rich countries will get access to coronavirus vaccines earlier than others - The Economist (December 18, 2020) : https://www.eiu.com/n/rich-countries-will-get-access-to-coronavirus-vaccines-earlier-than-others/ "The picture appears even bleaker for low-income...
Avis : rupture momentanée internationale d’approvisionnement en réactifs PCR COVID-19 – Les Centres GHESKIO
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