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...
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...
Côte d’Ivoire: Government welcomes PSGOUV implementation
The Council adopted a communication on the final report on the implementation of the Government's Social Program (PSGOUV). The Government Social Program (PSGOUV) has been adopted for the 2019-2020 period at an initial cost of 727.5 billion FCFA, with a view to...
Health: EQUITY in the hills
The Agence Française de Développement, through its " Ensemble pour une Qualité des soins Inclusives et transparente orientée vers l'Egalité genre, ''Equite'' " project implemented by Enabel in Benin, is donating a batch of medical equipment to...
Health: EQUITY in the hills
The Agence Française de Développement, through its " Ensemble pour une Qualité des soins Inclusives et transparente orientée vers l'Egalité genre, ''Equite'' " project implemented by Enabel in Benin, is donating a batch of medical equipment to...
Covid19: $23 million disbursed to Mauritania
In response to covid-19, the IMF decided to increase its financing to the Mauritanian government. Initially intended to support a reform plan, the Extended Credit Facility agreement between Nouakchott and the Fund has been redirected towards a pandemic response...
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...
Gabon: Samu Social announces free radiology services
Keen to help improve healthcare provision in the country, Samu social gabonais launched this Tuesday, March 09, 2021 a radiology service entirely free of charge for the benefit of the underprivileged. This offer should come as a relief to many compatriots who very...