Azerbaijan is developing a digital health strategy, Health Minister Teymur Musayev said in April. According to him, one of the pillars of this important development process is the digital healthcare reform. Musaev noted that the digital healthcare system is very...
First Vice Minister of Healthcare of Kazakhstan Marat Shoranov participated in the Fifth Meeting of Health Ministers of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Speaking at the meeting, Marat Shoranov noted that the principle of universal access to...
And three for the Observatoire citoyen sur l'accès aux services de santé (OCASS). This third report for 2021 was made public on July 1 at a press conference. OCASS is a citizen watch system set up by RAME (Réseau accès aux médicaments essentiels) and its associative...
Appointed on June 22, 2022 by the Council of Ministers, Soumaïla Gamsoré is now in charge of the CNAMU. During the handover ceremony held this Friday, July 1, 2022 at the headquarters of the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie Universelle, he already set himself a...
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is organizing the Fifty-fourth Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, in Dakar from May 11 to 17, 2022. In conjunction with the Conference, the International Labor Office and the United Nations...
The International Conference on Social Protection in Health (PSS) came to a close in Niamey on Friday May 13. Following four days of work and exchanges, the participating countries published a note of commitments to facilitate access to healthcare services for the...
In 2011, the Government of Zimbabwe in collaboration with the World Bank, initiated Results Based Financing (RBF) with the goal of increasing the availability, accessibility and utilisation of quality health care services. RBF is an example of strategic purchasing...
The GFF with support from the World Bank has organised a seminar focusing on lessons learnt in institutionalizing Results Based Financing in Zimbabwe. Building on the ongoing discussion around mainstreaming results-based financing (RBF) in the health sector, this...
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou to prepare a roadmap for the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs), on the initiative of the association SOS Jeunesse et Défis, in the Global Funding Facility (GFF) process in Burkina...
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou to prepare a roadmap for the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs), on the initiative of the association SOS Jeunesse et Défis, in the Global Funding Facility (GFF) process in Burkina...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a diagnostic approach to enable countries to look across health programmes that are part of their health system to detect “cross-programmatic” inefficiencies. The approach uses applied health system analysis to unpack...
To make sustainable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), public health financing is very critical. Uganda has taken major budgetary reforms to optimize budget planning, transparency, and accountability since the early 2000s. The two major reforms over...
Workshop objectives Enable the various stakeholders in healthcare financing to better understand the operating principles of each strategic purchasing mechanism (out put financing), its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Obtain proposals on the practical...
The report describes Uganda's transition process to programme-based budget, as a means to better align with public policy priorities and enhance accountability and transparency. It also discusses what the implications are for the health sector. The report...
To address the issue of health financing, the Ministry of Health initiated a series of reflections which led to the choice of moving towards Universal Health Coverage, through equitable and optimal health financing capable of supporting health in a sustainable way....
