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...
Question and answer booklet on the planned national health insurance scheme in 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...
Burkina Faso: ONIDS calls for effective universal health coverage
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,...
Burkina Faso-CSU: CSOs discuss in Ouagadougou
The Access to Essential Medicines Network (RAME) organized a civil society meeting on universal health coverage (UHC) this Wednesday, August 4, 2021 in Ouagadougou. This meeting is an opportunity to gather the views of the players involved on the implementation...
Multi-Regional Landscape Study and Analysis of Select West African Countries available
New West Africa regional document available: Recognizing that a healthy population promotes economic development, resilience, and strength, many governments have started pursuing a universal health coverage (UHC) agenda. The international community, national...
Document on developing and implementing health financing strategies available here
Low- and middle-income countries are developing health financing strategies to map out how they will pay for universal health coverage. This brief discusses three activities that are valuable for producing sound strategies: convening multi-sectoral committees to...
Document on advocacy for UHC available on the digital platform
Despite strong global commitment to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), inconsistent understanding and communication about UHC hinders progress. Experience suggests that advocating for and communicating about UHC requires deliberate, tailored, context-specific...
Inpatient care costs of COVID-19 in South Africa’s public healthcare system
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a devastating impact globally, with severe health and economic consequences including increased disperaties in health inequalities. This has the potential to frustrate governments efforts towards universal health coverage. To...
Manual for the Social Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism (EN)
"The mechanism will build up a system for data collection for analytical purposes and program monitoring which focuses on capturing the key indicators such as coverage expansion, efficiency and quality of services, access to benefits, investments, investments–result...
Togo: Two African training institutes include the Program Budget in their curricula
For three days, exchanges between African experts provided an opportunity to examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on program-budget reform and the effectiveness of public policies in the WAEMU region, and to draw lessons from the pandemic concerning the...
Niger: Analysis report on INAM’s Management Information System (MIS)
In collaboration with other technical and financial partners in the health sector, Niger's Ministry of Health led the way in setting up the Institut National d'Assistance Médicale (INAM). This document is the latest report (July 2021) available for download on the...
An ideal public health model? Vietnam’s state-led, preventative, low-cost response to COVID-19
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/06/29/an-ideal-public-health-model-vietnams-state-led-preventative-low-cost-response-to-covid-19/
Why shouldn’t the response to the COVID-19 pandemic be pitted against the CSU?
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic must be coherent and long-term. The risk is of taking a truncated approach, focusing only on short-term needs and interests, and pitting health safety and CSU against each other. Responding adequately to pandemics is a key...
74th World Health Assembly: Challenges and roadmap for Madagascar
Although this issue relates more to pillar 1 of the CSU (provision of effective, quality health care and services), it is of particular importance in Madagascar, given the ongoing process of drafting a law on financial protection in health care for all users (pillar 2...
Mali: CANAM balances its duty of accountability with the need to strengthen its action
In Bamako, as in other parts of Mali, many citizens are unhappy that certain medicines are not covered by the Assurance Maladie Obligatoire (AMO). This week, the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CANAM) claims to be hard at work revising the list of drugs...