P4HC+ Season’s Greetings 2020
Webinar: Assessing health financing systems with the Health Financing Progress Matrix: a focus on country implementation
Until recently, there was no standard assessment of a country’s health financing system, in terms of the alignment of institutions and policies with good practice. WHO’s newly developed Health Financing Progress Matrix fills this gap. The HFPM is both an...
Webinar: More money for health services: what is the role of PFM in the “new normal”?
Historically, public financial management (PFM) has been overlooked in academic and policy discussions on the availability of domestic resources. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that shows the impact of PFM processes on the quality and volume of...
Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 – Launch Event December 16th 2020
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is WHO’s standardized assessment of country health financing systems using a set of evidence-informed benchmarks, which are also referred to as desirable attributes. Each attribute represents one...
Global Spending on Health Report – Launch Event 9th December 2020
The report “Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm” is based on the newly updated Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). It is the 4th in a series of annual reports on global health spending that WHO has produced since 2017. The report...
Top 5 New Romanian health-tech initiatives developed in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic makes it more difficult to solve problems in hospitals. A solution is based on technology, and during this period it is more important than ever to increase the number of initiatives in the field of health-tech. The published information...
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...