SENEGAL-SOCIAL PROTECTION: The General Delegate for Social Protection and National Solidarity takes stock
More than a million households benefited from food assistance during Covid-19, and 186 billion 950 million CFA francs were invested in the social grants program, according to Aminata Sow. In this interview, the Déléguée générale à la protection sociale et la...
BURKINA: A look at the health budget
The problems faced by referral hospitals in Burkina Faso have much more to do with the budget that the State allocates to the field. This is well below the 15% commitment contained in the 2001 Abuja Declaration. To boost health funding, African states agreed a joint...
Ethiopia commemorates UHC Day with a high-level advocacy event
The advocacy event was organized by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) together with other sector ministries, World Health Organization (WHO), Save the Children and the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations (CCRDA). The aim of the event...
PhilHealth speeds up reimbursement to hospitals
To ensure social health protection of the members, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has implemented a new payment mechanism or the so-called “Debit-Credit Payment Method”, aiming to enable fast track reimbursement to qualified hospitals that...
Japan braces itself against the COVID-19 pandemic with the largest ever budget for 2022
Japan's cabinet has approved a record ¥107.60 trillion budget for 2022 to fight against the pandemic and increasing social security costs. Social security spending is more than a third of the overall budget to address the medical needs of the aging population. The...
Maldives join hands with Indonesia to develop their health sector
Maldives has signed an MoU with Indonesia to share knowledge, initiate expert visits, strengthen health regulatory capacity and provide support in healthcare services, health resilience, health financing, health human resources, and health technology. To know more,...
P4H 2020-2021 annual review
What happened between June 2020 and June 2021? The P4H Network's annual review takes a look back at the highlights of healthcare and social protection financing. Download the full document here.
Burkina Faso’s 2022 budget: health accounts for 4.93% of the budget
CIFOEB is the center for information, training and study on budgeting. The national budget, adopted on December 16 by the National Assembly, has been put under the microscope by this center, which gives its reading. For Executive Director Youssouf Ouattara, there are...
Senegal: 20 billion increase in the Ministry of Health budget
The draft 2022 budget for the Ministry of Health and Social Action is set at 270,110,604,494 F CFA in commitment authorizations (AE) and 235,996,717,777 F CFA in payment credits (CP). Unlike 2021, when the budget was 216 billion CFA francs, it has been revised upwards...
Free health care in Niger: the Ministry of Health reassures the public
On Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Public Health, Dr Ranaou Abaché, hosted a press briefing on the debate born on social networks around the authorities' suspension of free assisted childbirth in public health facilities. In his...
Sudan receives first shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines
On Wednesday, the 6th of October, 2021 the Sudanese Ministry of Health received its first shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. The plan of the Sudanese government is to vaccinate at least 20% of its population, that is, 8.4 million people out of the total population...
Ghana receives additional USD 200 million financing for COVID-19 response interventions
The government of Ghana has received an additional USD 200 million financing towards the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency preparedness and response project (EPRP). The amount will enable the government to fund the procurement of vaccines to inoculate about 7.6 million...
TOGO: INAM raises awareness of its new list of reimbursable medicines
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MALI: stakeholders discuss the integration of free benefits into the UHIP program
On December 15 and 16, the BAOBAB room at the RADISSON BLU Hotel in Bamako was the venue for a workshop to bring together those involved in implementing universal health coverage, with a view to better integrating free health care into Mali's universal health...
New document available on Sudan country page
A new document has been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Sudan country page. The document examines the determinants and the impact of out-of-pocket health care expenditures on household livelihoods in Sudan. The document can be downloaded from...