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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
The Philippines has seen relatively more challenges due to the Covid-19 Pandemic than perhaps its other South-east Asian counterparts. Despite the crafting of the historic Universal Health Care (UHC) Law over two years ago, the Pandemic has exposed several gaps in...
"The government’s stimulus packages have been comprehensive, rapid and well-sequenced, constituting 15 per cent of GDP. Almost half of respondents to a recent survey reported having received government support. Modelling estimates suggest that while government...
