DOCUMENT | 28 Oct 2021
Health financing and budgeting reforms in Gabon: Progress and challenges on the road to Universal Health Coverage (August 2020)
Gabon
DOCUMENT | 28 Oct 2021
Budgeting for results in health: Key features, achievements and challenges in Peru (August 2020)
Peru
NEWS | 18 Oct 2021
Workshop to develop the framework for the National Platform for Coordination of Health Financing (PNCFS)
Côte d’Ivoire
Workshop to develop the framework for the national health financing coordination platform from September 15 to 17, 2021 in Yamoussoukro. Event Time : 15 Sep 2021 6:00 am to 17 Sep 2021 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : No
NEWS | 18 Oct 2021
TOGO-INAM: Winner of the ISSA Best Practices Award
Togo
The Institut National d'Assurance Maladie (INAM) received this Tuesday, October 05, 2021, the Certificate of Merit with Special Mention at the ISSA 2020 Good Practice Award for Africa. This distinction was awarded to by the International Social Security...
NEWS | 04 Oct 2021
Burkina Faso-Free health care: a positive assessment according to SPONG
Burkina Faso
The Permanent Secretariat of NGOs (SPONG) and its members take stock of the year 2020 of citizen monitoring of the free healthcare measure for pregnant women and children under 5. The results are being presented this Friday, July 23, 2021, in Ouagadougou during a...
NEWS | 28 Sep 2021
GABON: Operationalization of the reinforcement of the technical platforms of health structures
Gabon
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,...
NEWS | 27 Sep 2021
Health System Performance Assessment Framework in Estonia as part of Structural Reforms
Estonia
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...
NEWS | 26 Sep 2021
Kazakhstan assessed the status of Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform
Kazakhstan
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...
DOCUMENT | 23 Sep 2021
Study on health financing in Burundi
Burundi
DOCUMENT | 21 Sep 2021
Chad: Final report of the study on the institutional and functional framework of the Medical Assistance Scheme (AMED) under construction
Chad
POST | 21 Sep 2021
Public financial management (PFM) in a pandemic: What can the experiences of Bangladesh and Indonesia during their COVID-19 response teach us about the importance of PFM?
Shamima Akhter (ThinkWell Bangladesh), Anooj Pattnaik (ThinkWell), Callum Pierce (ThinkWell), Afroja Yesmin (ThinkWell Bangladesh), Pak Trihono (ThinkWell Indonesia) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Helal, the manager of a busy health facility in...
NEWS | 16 Sep 2021
MALI/AMO: CANAM reassures its users
Mali
The Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CANAM) reassures its users that the compulsory health insurance service (AMO) continues throughout the country, despite the threat of suspension announced by the Syndicat National des Pharmaciens du Mali (SYNAPHARM)....
NEWS | 02 Sep 2021
AFRICA: Public funding for healthcare: we need to do more!
It is up to African states to find ways of increasing public funding. This would make it possible to develop health systems, study initiatives to improve access to services, and examine and identify the investments needed for health systems. The aim is to put in place...
DOCUMENT | 25 Aug 2021
Question and answer booklet on the planned national health insurance scheme in Uganda
Uganda
Health Insurance is a way of financing health care where individuals or households’ contributions are pooled together, so when members fall sick they access a defined package of health services without having to pay out of pocket. This has the potential to protect...
NEWS | 23 Aug 2021
Burkina Faso: ONIDS calls for effective universal health coverage
Burkina Faso
l'Onids est .L'organisation pour de nouvelles initiatives en développement et en santé (Onids) is a Burkinabe association committed to promoting and protecting the social and health rights of people, particularly the most disadvantaged. This Tuesday, August 17,...