BURKINA: Government continues to invest in community healthcare
In line with the regulations of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), the government has initiated a far-reaching reform of public finance management, with the introduction of the program budget. With the adoption by Parliament in 2017 of a budget...
GABON: Operationalization of the reinforcement of the technical platforms of health structures
The Minister of Health, Dr. Guy Patrick Obiang Ndong and the Minister of Social Affairs, Madame Prisca Koho Nlend, presided over the On September 17, an important meeting was held in the presence of the General Managers of health establishments and services,...
P4H is looking for a P4H Health financing & Data expert
The consultant will participate in a set of workstreams of the P4H network workplan that corresponds to a sub-section (“Health Financing & data”) of one specific output (“collaboration with other Health Systems’ Strengthening networks”). His / her functions will...
Latvia has successfully joined the European COVID Digital Certificate
The Republic of Latvia has successfully joined the European COVID Digital Certificate gateway, which will further ensure the exchange of data with the member states of the European Union (EU) on the information included in Digital Certificates, according to the...
P4H/SFHA NIGER: focal point takes office
Jean-François Caremel has been P4H/SFHA's Focal Person in Niger since August 21. SFHA members helped to define its role with the Niger Ministry of Health and to recruit its staff at the WHO country office. Trained as an economist and political scientist, since 2011 he...
NIGER-ENABEL: Contribution to the national CMU strategy
As part of the definition of the health component of the Niger-Belgium 2022-2026 cooperation program, a workshop was held from September 08 to 10, 2021, which clarified ENABEL's support for the national Universal Health Coverage strategy as part of the implementation...
The P4H Coordination Desk is looking for a P4H IT operations specialist
The consultant is expected to be an interface between the IT experts/companies contracted by the P4H Coordination Desk (P4H-CD) and users of the P4H digital platform, to technically support the P4H Network IT team in the management of the P4H digital platform and to...
Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs solicits increased health financing from the Government
As reported by Kaija Kasekamp at the platform of European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, multiple analyses have indicated that the social tax-based health financing system in Estonia is not sustainable. Estonia's working-age population is...
Now available: Executive summary of the first of the four-part webinar series on Health Financing in India
The webinar series titled Health Financing in India was launched to bring together national and international health systems and financing experts, economists, and researchers to discuss the burning health financing and social health protection issues in the country...
Financing nursing care more than doubled in Estonia in 2021
According to materials prepared by Triin Habicht, a renown health economist from Estonia (WHO consultant) and her colleague Kaija Kasekamp (University of Tartu), the Estonian Insurance Fund started financing nursing services in assisted living facilities since 2020...
Health System Performance Assessment Framework in Estonia as part of Structural Reforms
Since 2017, the European Commission has provided expertise to help design over 1000 reform projects in 27 Member States through the Structural Reform Support Programme. As of 2021, the Technical Support Instrument (TSI), its successor, continues to support reforms...
International Partnership Recommendations for Health Sector Reforms in Uzbekistan
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has published a 2021 report titled “Reforming healthcare in Uzbekistan: what role for the international community?” available in English, Uzbek and Russian languages here This report examines the state of the...
Kazakhstan assessed the status of Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform
On September 7, 2021, a regular meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Healthcare was held in Kazakhstan. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Healthcare Alexey Tsoy (on the photo), his First Vice-minister Marat Shoranov, Vice-Minister Azhar Giniyat, as well...
Nigeria records another milestone, launches second phase of COVID-19 vaccination
On August 16, 2021, Nigeria launched the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign; a continuous effort towards curbing the spread of the disease in the country. At a symbolic event to mark the second phase at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Abuja,...
Nigeria receives four million COVID-19 vaccine doses
In March, Nigeria received about 4 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The arrival of the vaccines marked a historic step towards the goal to ensure equitable distribution...