Next P4H webinar on COVID-19 and health financing: the case of Morocco -Friday October 2 at 11am CET.
COVID-19 and health financing: the case of Morocco To take part in the webinar, please click on the link below. 11:00 to 11:30 - Presentation of the Moroccan Ministry of Health: Abdelouahab Belmadani, Director of the Ministry's financial...
Don’t miss the next P4H webinar in French on COVID-19 and health financing: the case of Morocco! Friday, October 2 at 11am CET.
Next P4H webinar in French on COVID-19 and health financing: the case of Morocco! Friday, October 2 at 11am CET. To participate, Webex link
Job – OPS/OMS en Haïti
https://reliefweb.int/job/3669655/saisie-et-gestion-de-donn-es-covid-19 L’appel à candidatures ferme le 26 septembre 2020.
COVID-19. 3ème bilan du CARDH sur l’état d’urgence en Haïti
L’état d’urgence sanitaire en Haïti : Une opération de corruption, de paupérisation et de violation de droits humains. En vue de boucler son travail de vigile sur l’état d’urgence sanitaire en Haïti, le Centre d’analyse et de recherche en droits de l’homme (CARDH)...
Budgeting challenges on the path towards universal health coverage: the case of Benin – September 2020
Background In its pursuance of universal health coverage (UHC), the government of Benin is piloting a project of mandatory social insurance for health entitled “ARCH”. Methods We analysed budget data and ARCH documents, and conducted four observation missions in Benin...
Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance: a wrong track for LMICs? A forthcoming webinar.
In low- and low-middle-income countries, there is an increasing interest in initiating and expanding social health insurance through labor taxes. Yet, this vision goes against available empirical evidence. This session will build on recent recommendatons by...
HEAR WHAT PARTICIPANTS THINK
More than 200 high-level individuals have been involved in L4UHC, from health and financial specialists through to politicians and representatives of civil society. Find out what they think about the programme, and how it has helped countries progress UHC, in the...
Ministry of Health and Social Services, the Embassy of Japan and the World Health Organization (WHO) renew effort to address the Hepatitis E Virus Outbreak in Namibia
The Namibian government renewed its efforts in containing the Hepatitis E Virus (HEV), which was declared as an outbreak since 14 December 2017. To this end, the “Improving the national preparedness and response capacity to contain infectious disease outbreaks...
(Blog, FMI)
https://www.imf.org/fr/News/Articles/2020/08/27/blog-covid-19-without-help-low-income-developing-countries-risk-a-lost-decade " ... Le soutien de la communauté internationale est essentiel pour permettre aux PDFR de lutter contre la pandémie et de reprendre vigueur....
(Blog, GFP FMI)
"In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries set up extra-budgetary funds (EBFs)[2] to mobilize resources and streamline emergency spending measures. A recently published IMF note examines the role these funds may play in the current crisis. The note...
Nepal boosts drugs availability – August 2020
Nepal has made significant progress in improving drug availability in districts. Pukar Malla, an executive coach at the Nepal Leadership Academy, explains how L4UHC helped create a safe space to innovate, and the importance of starting small and thinking big. Nepal...
Conférence de presse “.. sur la Gouvernance des fonds alloués au Covid-19” de l’Initiative Citoyenne de Vigilance et de Solidarité
Papier
"These specific attributes of the Haitian resilience could be summarized as follows: hardiness, creativity, and belief in traditional and complementary healing". https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-61556-001.pdf Du besoin des sciences sociales pour analyser la Crise...
The Beninese government equips Assurance pour le Renforcement du Capital Humain with 5,000 electronic card readers – Cotonou (Benin) – July 2020
To ensure the unequivocal authenticity of the electronic cards issued to beneficiaries as part of the implementation of the Assurance pour le Renforcement du Capital Humain (Arch), the Council of Ministers authorized the acquisition of 5,000 card readers at the...
COVID-19: transformative actions for more equitable, resilient, sustainable societies and health systems in the Americas
https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/8/e003509 Summary box ► COVID-19 has exposed structural deficiencies in health, social and economic policies and sectors in the Americas impacting the resilience of health systems and societies. ►Due to the pandemic, the region of the...