The National Health Financing Strategy 2080- 2090 includes strategic interventions to expand fiscal space for health, strengthen social protection, improve resource generation, and improve health financing governance, accountability, and transparency in the health...
Workshop on the collective action initiatives as part of the implementation of UHC
From August 21 to 22, 2024, a workshop was held to assess the Collective Action Initiatives (CAI) in Cameroon as part of the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The conclave brought together members of the L4UHC group in Mbankomo in the Centre region....
The Health Sector in Seychelles: Prioritization and Accountability
Seychelles’ public health indicators speak volumes for the results that can be achieved by sustained investment in health focused on World Health Organization–recommended strategies. Health spending indicators for Seychelles show remarkable efficiency in delivering...
National Health Accounts 2022
Estimates of health spending and financing in Uruguay for the year 2022 are presented using the Health Accounts methodology (SHA 2011). Total health spending represented 9.13% of gross domestic product (GDP), 0.7 percentage points higher than in 2021. Public spending...
“Worrying” situation of social accounts according to Unocam
The French National Assembly's Social Affairs Committee has examined the bill to approve the Social Security accounts for 2023. Solicited by the Social Security Department, the Union nationale des organismes complémentaires d'Assurance maladie (Unocam) has submitted...
Deficit in healthcare establishments: The Ondam Alert Committee calls for action
The Comité d'alerte de l'Objectif national de dépenses d'assurance maladie (Ondam) has issued its opinion in which it analyzes the anticipated achievement of the Ondam for the previous year (2023) and deduces the consequences for compliance with the target for the...
Forum highlights sustainable healthcare spending in India, the Philippines, and Rwanda
At a recent Global Fund event in Geneva, leaders from 14 countries, including India, the Philippines, and Rwanda, shared strategies for optimizing healthcare spending through improved public financial management.From July 3-5, 2024, the Global Fund hosted a forum in...
Capitalization study on improving healthcare affordability
In terms of health risk coverage, Mali has opted for three mechanisms: AMO, RAMED and mutual health insurance for the vast majority of the population. This led AFD, after preliminary studies, to initiate joint multi-stakeholder meetings. The project has three...
Increase in several social benefits announced by the government in 2024
The Minister for Finance, National Planning and Trade, Naadir Hassan announced that the government’s budget for 2024 will see an increase in several social benefits.Minister Hassan told the house that the revision was done over a year of consultation with key partners...
Angola’s Health and Nutrition sectors : Review 2023
In 2022, the health budget represented 4.8% of the OGE and 1.6% of the Gross Domestic Product, amounting to a total of Kz 905.5 billion (US$ 2.6 billion) or Kz 27.3 thousand per capita (US$ 54 per capita). The budget is heavily centralized in the Central Government,...
IDH 2024 Report: The WEZOU program bears fruit!
In recent years, Togo has made considerable efforts in the health sector, with an accessibility rate of 90.7% by 2023. This progress is the fruit of several innovative initiatives by the Head of State, notably the Wezou program. According to the Human Development...
Analysis of Chèque Santé extension in Cameroon
As part of the fight against Maternal, Neonatal and Infant Mortality, the State of Cameroon has been working with AFD and KFW to set up the Chèque Santé project since June 2015. It has helped reduce in-hospital maternal and neonatal mortality. On April 12, 2023, the...
Assessing the performance of the public finance management system
This assessment of the Republic of Djibouti's public financial management system is the first to use the PEFA methodology.This assessment covers the seven pillars of public financial management and measures its impact on the following three main objectives of public...
Jordan National Health Accounts Main Indicators 2015-2022
The first timeline provides the key milestones for Health insurance Administration (which is run by MoH), the second timeline is for the Military Insurance fund which is run by the Royal medical services, the third is a single timepoint for the establishment of the...
Projet Spark Santé: A catalyst for the operationalization of CMU
On May 6 and 7, 2024, several experts gathered in Abidjan for the closing of the Spark-santé project (Strategic Purchase and Harmonization of Health Financing and Skills) of the World Bank Group, jointly with the Global Finance Facility (GFF).In figures, the World...