Budget FY 2021-22: Covid-19 vaccination to get priority
Keeping the mass vaccination in mind, the revenue target for the next fiscal has been set Tk 389,078 crore, which is 11.02% of the GDP, according to the finance ministry and National Board of Revenue (NBR) sources. There will be Tk 10,000 crore special allocation for...
NIGER: Scoping meeting on health financing
A scoping meeting on health financing in Niger brought together experts working on the issue on a virtual platform. Below is a summary of the main points from the June 3 meeting: A presentation of the steps involved in setting up the National Health Insurance...
Sri Lanka to receive aid from Australia as part of the latter’s new Health Security Initiative
Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marise Payne, announced that Australia will provide AUD 5.5 million in funding to Sri Lanka as part of a new Health Security initiative to support the Sri Lankan Government’s COVID-19 response. The new initiative will assist...
Nepal gives priority to health in annual budget, allocates NPR 122 billion for vaccines
The caretaker government of Nepal has prioritized the health sector of the Nation in the budget of the fiscal year 2021-22, allocating over NPR (Nepalese Rupees) 122 Billion amid the Covid 19 crisis out of which 26.75 billion will be set aside for the procurement...
Ministry of Health to revise public healthcare subsidy framework to benefit those with greater needs
From the middle of next year, means-tested public healthcare subsidy frameworks are set to be revised as government spending on patient subsidies is projected to hit S$6.5 billion in the 2020 financial year, up from S$4 billion five years before. The changes...
The Impact of Covid 19 on Subnational Government Financing and Household Financial Risk Protection in Indonesia
Covid 19 has exposed gaps in the budgetary allocations of the subnational governments in Indonesia that resulted in increase of out-pocket health expenditure and catastrophic household spending on health expenditure for health care services. A recent study by Health...
Strengthening health financing response in COVID-19
The COVID-19 war and commitment towards UHC hinge on the criticality of designing strategic health financing policies in India. The pandemic provides the window of opportunity to reflect on our health financing objectives to strengthen the health system resilience and...
Household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in India
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in India have assumed significant proportions in contributing to the overall disease burden over the past 30 years. In 2017, NCDs accounted for 63.7% of all mortality and was a major contributor to the cost of treatment for inpatient...
Burkina Faso: Over a billion euros to finance scientific research projects
The Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Pr Alkassoum Maïga, presided over a ceremony this Tuesday, May 18, 2021, to present checks to 43 research project holders. The funding, amounting to 1.6 billion CFA francs, will be used to find...
CSU in Senegal: a plea for gender and equality
This May 31, 2021 saw the opening of a thematic webinar dialogue of African parliamentarians on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and gender equality. Senegal's parliamentary network on population...
Burkina Faso: a health mutual enrolls a hundred sickle-cell-affected children
In the absence of a national program to combat sickle cell anemia, the " Project to support the fight against sickle cell disease in Burkina Faso "The project was carried out by the consortium of the Ministry of Health, CID/Burkina and GIH, with financial...
Gabon: CNAMGS committed to reducing medical evacuations
Reduce medical evacuations for children's urological surgery. This is the ultimate goal of the medical-surgical caravan for the care of children with urological pathologies, held from May 24 to 29 at the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Fondation Jeanne Ebori in...
WHO is looking for a Consultant in Health Financing in Namibia
WHO/AFRO is looking for a Consultant to support the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Health Financing Strategies in the context of UHC Contract duration: 5 months In line with the UHC Policy Framework, the WHO Global Programme of Work (GPW)...
Learning Brief No.7 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Stakeholder engagement
Learning Brief No.8 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Incentivizing private provision of Primary Health Care in a remote area (Initial Phase)