On June 24, 2021, 19 state-owned companies presented their financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020, including Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie Universelle (CNAMU). The Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie universelle (CNAMU) has submitted its...
How can conventional medicines be made accessible to the public to counter the sale of street medicines ? The issue was the focus of a meeting of healthcare stakeholders on Thursday June 17 in Bamako. During the session, which was attended by experts from all...
To make progress towards UHC, countries should prioritize and clearly define the type and mix of health services that should be provided in response to population needs. To ensure that the package can be funded and provided as planned, the resources needed to...
Each year, WHO honors individuals or organizations in each of its six Regions for their achievements in tobacco control. This recognition takes the form of the WHO Director-General's Special Recognition Award and the World No Tobacco Day Awards. This year, thehe...
Niger's Minister of Health gave an explanatory statement on the draft law on CMU at a Cabinet meeting held at last Monday under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. At the end of the meeting, all the ministers were sensitive to the importance of...
Understanding public financing for health is critical to effective advocacy to advance efforts to implement universal health coverage (UHC). A new toolkit developed by UHC2030 and PMNCH aims to give civil society and other stakeholders a better understanding of the...
The security crisis has had an impact on the continuity of reproductive health and gender-based violence (RH/GBV) services, with a considerable drop in coverage indicators. Indeed, the healthcare system continues to come under attack, with 76 health centers closed and...
The security and protection crisis has had an impact on the continuity of reproductive health and gender-based violence (RH/GBV) services, with a considerable drop in coverage indicators. Indeed, the healthcare system continues to come under attack, with 76 health...
Chad, like other countries around the world, celebrated World Health Day on April 07, 2021, with the theme"For a fairer and healthier world". To mark the event, the Director General of the Ministry of Health and National Solidarity made a radio statement. In his...
The 26th session of the Board of Directors of the Ministry of Public Health and National Solidarity was held from June 1 to 5, 2021 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in N'Djaména , under the theme: " Better governance of the healthcare system for the benefit...
In collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and a team of local consultants at RESADE, ThinkWell carried out a detailed review of the free-of-charge policy. This review is part of ThinkWell's Strategic Purchasing for Primary Healthcare (SP4PHC) project to...
Since 2016, Burkina Faso has introduced a policy of free healthcare for pregnant women and children under five. ThinkWell and its research partner RESADE have conducted a detailed analysis of the free healthcare policy in collaboration with the Ministry of...
Since May 24, pharmaceutical news has been marked by a pricing change for a category of products with hybrid status, half-drug and half-nutritional supplement. This increase follows a reclassification in the customs nomenclature of this category of products,...
As low- and middle-income countries undertake health financing reforms to achieve universal health coverage, there is renewed interest in making allocation of pooled funds to health-care providers more strategic. To make purchasing more strategic, countries are...
With support from the World Bank, the Global Financing Facility, and the Government of Japan, Kenya is implementing the Transforming Health Systems for Universal Care Project (THS-UCP) to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH)...
