The BMC Globalization and Health article evaluates the Debt-to-Health initiative and offers recommendations to improve its effectiveness in converting debt repayments into health investments for indebted low- and middle-income countries. The research article...
Reform of the Fonds Commun Santé to accelerate universal health coverage
The reform reaffirms the importance of the Fonds Commun Santé (FCS) in health financing in Niger. The P4H country focal point has been entrusted with the task of considering the options for a redesign. A roadmap has been validated by the stakeholders and monitoring...
Regulation note UGP_P4H 2023
Despite the efforts made and improvements achieved over the last few decades, most of Niger's health and social indicators are still well below the expected public health targets, and progress is slow.The MSP/P/AS is committed, through the reforms it is implementing...
Framework note on PDSS reforms
This document defines the strategic and technical guidelines for accelerating the move towards CSU. It sets ambitious targets and defines the ways and means of achieving them, notably through a series of reforms and systemic innovations, which the Ministry of Health...
Transmission of the role of Lead Partner of the PTF Santé-Bilan UNFPA
UNFPA's coordinating role provided an opportunity to set the key objectives for the 2020-2023 period: Planning, Concertation and joint steering, Health financing, Community health. Key recommendations: Strengthen efforts to link different levels of dialogue within the...
Rethinking health financing beyong GDP
Research article published in PLOS Global Public Health advocates for moving away from using GDP and GNI as proxies for measuring overall well-being and eligibility for external aid in health. The authors emphasise the need for robust alternative measures in global...
Mapping the literature on development assistance in health
The document published by the Observer Research Foundation presents a comprehensive analysis of the literature on development assistance in health between 2000 and 2022. The study reveals critical findings, including disparities in research output and significant...
Financing the future: IDA’s Role in the Evolving Global Aid Architecture
The document "Financing the Future: IDA’s Role in the Evolving Global Aid Architecture" focuses on key trends in official financial flows, the need for rebalancing the global aid architecture, and the International Development Association's (IDA) comparative...
ADB and Global Fund join forces to strengthen health systems and advance UHC
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on resource mobilization for the effective delivery of health services to vulnerable populations in Asia and...
Dynamics of collaboration and support for the universal health coverage process in Chad
As part of its ongoing commitment to the effective implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Chad, the P4H partner network held two crucial meetings on February 16 and March 11, 2024. These meetings brought together key international and local players,...
Free healthcare and healthcare financing: Nearly 9 billion FCFA saved by digitizing invoices
In Ouagadougou, the Minister of Health presided over the closing ceremony of the first ordinary session of the Comité d'orientation et de suivi de la gratuité des soins et du financement de la santé. The technicians spent two days examining the efficiency of free...
Strengthening health financing and HTA institutionalization
The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ethiopian Health Insurance Services (EHIS) works to address core health financing policy issues and advance health technology assessment (HTA).The World Health Organization...
National dialogue on health financing in Burundi
From February 12 to 14, 2024, the Economic Community of East African States organized a high-level national dialogue on health financing in Bujumbura. This dialogue mobilized stakeholders around the theme: "Increasing public resources for health financing in...
Donor coordination to support universal health coverage in Malawi
Malawi's Ministry of Health tackles health financing and donor coordination challenges with innovative strategies, yet faces hurdles from power dynamics and donor-government priority misalignment.A recent scholarly publication underscores the complexities arising from...
Transition to sunset: the future of foreign aid for basic health services in Africa
Development Today article calls for a radical rethinking of foreign aid, moving away from perpetual dependency towards empowering African nations to control and finance their own health agendas.The current global health institutions and aid systems are fundamentally...