In February 2021, Niger organized the national virtual workshop to validate the results of its twelfth health accounts report dedicated to fiscal year 2019. The main results from the health accounts are summarized below: - National healthcare spending has risen over...
Validation of the results of the health accounts in Niger, fiscal year 2019
In February 2021, Niger organized the national virtual workshop to validate the results of its twelfth health accounts report dedicated to fiscal year 2019. The main results from the health accounts are summarized below: - National healthcare spending has risen over...
How Japan’s Universal Health Care System led to COVID 19 Success
Japan has seen very low mortality rates due to COVID 19 despite a rapidly ageing population owing to universal health insurance, a uniform fee schedule and a no-gatekeeping system. The combination ensures affordable access to health services for everyone...
2020 Annual Review: 10 years in retrospect
Charlemagne Ouédraogo, Minister of Health, reviewed the implementation of his sector's actions over the last decade. These achievements can be summarized as follows: With regard to access to quality health services, the head of Health indicated...
Côte d’Ivoire: Government welcomes PSGOUV implementation
The Council adopted a communication on the final report on the implementation of the Government's Social Program (PSGOUV). The Government Social Program (PSGOUV) has been adopted for the 2019-2020 period at an initial cost of 727.5 billion FCFA, with a view to...
Health: EQUITY in the hills
The Agence Française de Développement, through its " Ensemble pour une Qualité des soins Inclusives et transparente orientée vers l'Egalité genre, ''Equite'' " project implemented by Enabel in Benin, is donating a batch of medical equipment to...
Health: EQUITY in the hills
The Agence Française de Développement, through its " Ensemble pour une Qualité des soins Inclusives et transparente orientée vers l'Egalité genre, ''Equite'' " project implemented by Enabel in Benin, is donating a batch of medical equipment to...
Kankan: launch of the “results-based financing” approach
Results-based Financing has been adopted as a health system reform strategy in Guinea since 2016, linked to the Ministry of Health's 2015-2024 national health development plan. According to Dr. Daman Keïta, coordinator of the national results-based financing technical...
Towards a viable, high-performance health insurance system in Mali
On March 15, the Malian capital hosted a training workshop on the implementation of actuarial indicators and dashboards. Completed on March 20, this session was organized by the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CANAM), in partnership with CIPRES (Conférence...
Communication from the Minister for Community Development on CMU
During the Council of Ministers meeting of January 27, 2021, the Minister in charge of Community Development on the CMU Program made an important statement on the current situation in Senegal. This document takes stock of ANACMU's activities between 2015 and 2020 in...
Free health care: products found in illegal practices in Ouagadougou
District number 4 of Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. Two nursing practices and a private health and social promotion center (CSPS) in the nets of the local Gendarmerie brigade. We are at the end of an investigation which has led to the arrest of nine...
Côte d’Ivoire: Targeted free healthcare explained
On February 16, the Ivorian Minister of Health unveiled the new measures that will be implemented, following the end of the generalized free health care scheme that has been in place in the country for the past 10 months. To this end, Thérèse N'DRI YOMAN invited...
Sri Lanka receives Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines under COVAX Facility
'Sri Lanka on Sunday received the first batch of 264,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines provided under the World Health Organisation's COVAX facility, an official said. COVAX is the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines...
CNAMGS calls bad payers to order
As part of the process of certifying their receivables, 90 Gabonese companies in sectors ranging from construction and public works to services, catering and hotels have just been called in by the collection and litigation department of the Caisse Nationale...
Covid-19 and Nepal’s Health Financing: Insights and recommendations based on local government response during full lockdown
The public healthcare system in Nepal is a shared responsibility between the federal, local and provincial governments with the latter usually at the forefront of handling outbreaks such as COVID-19 on ground. The financing for their operations was mixed as well where...