Indian households spent more on food, less on healthcare during first lockdown due to COVID-19
Since June 2020, various studies have suggested that the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in India caused severe disruptions to the food supply chain, large levels of unemployment, an increase in vulnerabilities for migrant workers, and gendered violence at home, among...
Курение в Кот-д’Ивуаре: ежегодные затраты на лечение составляют 28 млрд. франков КФА
В ближайшие 20 лет заболевания, связанные с табаком, приведут к потере производительности труда и затратам на здравоохранение, эквивалентным 12 000 млрд. долларов США во всем мире. В Кот-д'Ивуаре государство ежегодно тратит на лечение заболеваний, связанных с...
Smoking in Côte d’Ivoire: the annual cost of treatment amounts to 28 billion CFA francs
Over the next 20 years, tobacco-related illnesses will result in lost productivity and healthcare costs equivalent to Us$12,000 billion worldwide. In Côte d'Ivoire, the government spends an average of 28 billion CFA francs a year on medical treatment for...
Firm commitments to eliminate obstetric fistula by 2030
In order to eliminate obstetric fistula by 2030 in West and Central Africa, several First Ladies of Africa are committed to mobilizing more resources and strengthening their support for the fight against this scourge at the high-level round table on the...
Burkina Faso joins the Global Laboratory Leadership Program
" Global Laboratory Leadership Program (GLLP) or Programme mondial pour le leadership des Laboratoires au Burkina Faso " was born of the collaboration of six international organizations that support the development of laboratory systems worldwide. The...
Burkina Faso joins the Global Laboratory Leadership Program
" Global Laboratory Leadership Program (GLLP) or Programme mondial pour le leadership des Laboratoires au Burkina Faso " was born of the collaboration of six international organizations that support the development of laboratory systems worldwide. The...
Rich nations vaccinating one person every second while Somalia receives doses for less than 2% of population
24th March 2021: Somali NGOs warmly welcome the first batch of COVID19 vaccines this week from COVAX and warn that Somalia is facing critical shortages of oxygen and medical supplies to cope with the rising COVID-19 cases. With current vaccine doses less than 2% of...
Activists urge government to prioritise health budget funding
Civil Society activists have urged government to prioritise health sector funding in plight of the Covid-19 era that the country is going through. They say the reduction in the health budget to about 5-6 %, significantly falls short of the Abuja Declaration target...
Kankan: launch of the “results-based financing” approach
Results-based Financing has been adopted as a health system reform strategy in Guinea since 2016, linked to the Ministry of Health's 2015-2024 national health development plan. According to Dr. Daman Keïta, coordinator of the national results-based financing technical...
Нигер-Ковид19: ИБР предлагает 1,7 млрд. франков КФА
По словам министра планирования Кане Айчату Буламы, размещенным на сайте , финансирование от группы Исламского банка развития (ИБР) должно позволить Нигеру усилить надзор за здоровьем и управление случаями заболевания ковид-19 путем оснащения ключевых...
Niger-Covid19: IDB offers 1.7 billion CFA francs
According to Minister of Planning, Kané Aichatou Boulama, the funding from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) group should enable Niger to strengthen health surveillance and the management of covid-19 cases by equipping key units. It will also involve...
Towards cost reduction with the National Cancer Center
This jewel will enable the Nigerien healthcare system to make "a very significant advance", notably in terms of health indicators. The National Cancer Center was inaugurated on March 26 by the President of the Republic. In figures, 4,223,330,260 CFA francs were...
2020 Annual Review: 10 years in retrospect
Charlemagne Ouédraogo, Minister of Health, reviewed the implementation of his sector's actions over the last decade. These achievements can be summarized as follows: With regard to access to quality health services, the head of Health indicated...
Семинар по объединению усилий партнеров в области цифровизации здравоохранения в сообществе
С 29 по 31 марта был проведен семинар, целью которого была разработка согласованной и бюджетированной глобальной дорожной карты по оцифровке на уровне сообществ с целью согласования действий партнеров. На церемонии открытия семинара были определены результаты, которые...
Partner alignment workshop for the digitization of community health
A workshop was held from March 29 to 31, with the aim of drawing up a concerted and budgeted global roadmap for digitization at community level, with a view to aligning partners. The opening ceremony of this workshop set the results targeted by this...