Togo: The national health insurance institute opens its call center
The National Health Insurance Institute (INAM) is launching a toll-free number, 8220. Togolese people can now contact operators for matters relating to universal health coverage. Launched since 2012 to provide cover for risks linked to sickness, non-occupational...
Togo: local councillors targeted by malaria insurance
Togo's local councillors were asked to provide a complete list of their peers without access to health insurance. The political will shown by the President of the Republic comes in response to the extension of CMU to the Togolese population. Health coverage has...
Free healthcare in Burkina Faso: Accountability at the heart of the policy
Investigations revealed that the products had been fraudulently taken from the district depot store for the benefit of a state-registered nurse in charge of a health and social promotion center. A total of five people have been arrested, including a health...
Union des mutuelles de santé: strengthening community mutuals in the sights of the new president
Strengthening and supporting community health mutuals means This is one of the challenges facing Andre Demba Wade, the newly appointed President of the Union nationale des mutuelles de santé communautaire du Sénégal. He was chosen at the end of a renewal general...
Мониторинг политики в области здравоохранения: ОГО подводят итоги в Буркина-Фасо
С 2018 года Национальный совет организаций гражданского общества (НСОГО/БФ) участвует в гражданском мониторинге предоставления государственных услуг в сфере здравоохранения. Регионы Hauts-Bassins и Nord находятся под прицелом этой федерации организаций гражданского...
Monitoring public health policies: CSOs take stock in Burkina Faso
Since 2018, the National Council of Civil Society Organizations (CNOSC/BF) has been engaged in citizen monitoring of public service provision in the health sectors. The Hauts-Bassins and Nord regions are in the sights of this federation of civil society organizations,...
Burkina Faso validates free treatment for HIV patients
Under the aegis of the President of Faso, the Conseil national de lutte contre le SIDA et les infections sexuellement transmissibles held its 19th ordinary session. It was an opportunity to validate the new HIV control framework covering the period...
Free healthcare in Burkina Faso: Call for improved budget allocations
On April 15, Save the Children held an information and advocacy workshop on the need to improve access to healthcare for pregnant women and children aged 0 to 5. This workshop follows on from a project to improve maternal and child health (PASMI) implemented in the...
WHO/AFRO is offering a 5-month assignment to support the Health Financing and Investment program
The Health Financing and Investment (HFI) program is one of the 9 programs under the UHC Life course cluster. The main objective of the HFI program is to support countries to strengthen their Health Financing Systems and enhance progress towards UHC through generation...
Wilson Center contributor reflects on COVID-19 and structural global health shortcomings in the US and EU
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare structural weaknesses in the domestic public health systems in place in the US and EU member states. In the US the debate and implementation on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’) will undoubtedly continue. In...
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The mission of the department of Health Systems Governance and Financing (HGF) and its units at WHO HQ is to support member countries to develop and/or sustain health financing systems that ensure access to needed health services while avoiding catastrophic...
Delay in creation of an indemnity fund led Philippines to be one of the last Southeast Asian countries to receive COVID 19 vaccine through COVAX
It is expected that countries allocate a vaccine indemnification fund for procuring COVID-19 vaccine form the COVAX facility that essentially gives indemnity to vaccine makers if their COVID-19 shots cause adverse side-effects but more importantly secures...
COVID-19: Какое влияние на повестку дня CSU оказывают африканские страны? ВЕБИНАР в четверг 20 мая 2021 года
До начала пандемии несколько африканских стран находились в процессе распространения положений о всеобщем охвате населения услугами здравоохранения (ВОМЗ). Пандемия не поставила под сомнение цели, которые ставит перед собой CSU, напротив, кризис можно...
COVID-19: What impact on the CSU agenda in African countries? WEBINAR Thursday, May 20, 2021
Prior to the pandemic, several African countries were in the process of extending their universal health coverage (UHC) provisions. The pandemic has not called into question the CSU's objective; on the contrary, the crisis could be seen as a strong argument for...
Patients in tents asked to pay ₱1k per hour without PhilHealth coverage
Filipinos housed in what are being called hospital tents outside hospitals due to the shortage of beds are being charged 1000 Pesos (about 20 USD) an hour despite being covered by the country’s national health insurance scheme PhilHealth. For an overnight stay, this...