DOCUMENT | 28 Oct 2021
Budget structure in health and transition to programme budgeting: Lessons from Armenia (December 2018)
Armenia
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DOCUMENT | 28 Oct 2021
Transition to programme budgeting in health in Burkina Faso: Status of the reform and preliminary lessons for health financing (December 2018)
Burkina Faso
NEWS | 22 Oct 2021
Ethiopia first country to pilot the latest version of the WHO’s Health Financing Progress Matrix
Ethiopia
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), developed by WHO’s Department of Health Systems Governance & Financing, assesses country health financing systems against a set of evidence-based benchmarks. The WHO developed and released version 2 of the HFPM in late...
NEWS | 21 Oct 2021
5th Meeting of the Montreux Collaborative on Fiscal Space, Public Financial Management and Health Financing
Meeting background: Since 2014 WHO has convened the Montreux Collaborative bi-annual meeting bringing together experts and partners to discuss the critical relationship between fiscal space, public financial management (PFM) and health financing towards advancing...
NEWS | 12 Oct 2021
Publication of the ACT-Accelerator Strategic Review
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Strategic Review: An independent report prepared by Dalberg, was published on Friday, 8th October 2021. This report was commissioned by the World Health Organization, on behalf of the ACT-Accelerator partners and as host...
NEWS | 29 Sep 2021
Information workshop for parliamentarians on Burundi’s National Social Protection Policy and Code
Burundi
On September 27 and 28, 2021, an important workshop was held in Gitega, the political capital of Burundi, chaired by the 2nd Vice-President of the Senate, in the presence of Madame the Minister of National Solidarity, Social Affairs, Human Rights and Gender. The...
NEWS | 23 Sep 2021
Information workshop on the PNPS and the PS Code for Members of Parliament
Burundi
Event Time : 27 Sep 2021 7:00 am to 28 Sep 2021 3:34 pmTimezone: UTC+02:00Event is Conference : No
NEWS | 16 Sep 2021
MALI/AMO: CANAM reassures its users
Mali
The Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CANAM) reassures its users that the compulsory health insurance service (AMO) continues throughout the country, despite the threat of suspension announced by the Syndicat National des Pharmaciens du Mali (SYNAPHARM). Faced...
NEWS | 02 Sep 2021
Burkina Faso-Health financing: young people involved in budget monitoring
Burkina Faso
Providing youth organizations with the tools they need to understand budget-related concepts, so that they can advocate for budget monitoring, is the main objective of this workshop, which brings together some twenty young people in Ouagadougou at the end...
NEWS | 01 Sep 2021
Chad: Holding of the first Session of the year 2021 of the CSU Technical Follow-up Committee, 07.08.2021
Chad
On 07.08.2021, the CSU Technical Monitoring Committee held its first session of the year on the institutional framework for the start-up of the Medical Assistance Scheme (AMED). This session, which follows the validation workshop of the study report on the...
NEWS | 22 Aug 2021
Feasibility study is published about the introduction of mandatory health insurance in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
To improve its health system, WHO reports that Uzbekistan is currently implementing a transformative reform programme. As many other countries within the Commonwealth of Independent States, Uzbekistan has decided to introduce mandatory health insurance (MHI) to move...
DOCUMENT | 17 Aug 2021
Communication and Advocacy in Action: Building Momentum for Universal Health Coverage
Despite strong global commitment to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), inconsistent understanding and communication about UHC hinders progress. Experience suggests that advocating for and communicating about UHC requires deliberate, tailored, context-specific...
NEWS | 16 Jul 2021
ILO-VSS co-organized training on customer care targeting Viet Nam’s health and social insurance members
Vietnam
Under the framework of ILO-Luxembourg project “Support to the extension of social health protection in Southeast Asia”, the ILO and Viet Nam Social Security (VSS) co-organized a three-day training on customer care skills for 25 VSS staff working on customer care. The...
NEWS | 29 Jun 2021
2021 Congress – International Health Economics Association
The theme of this year’s congress is "Health Economics in a Time of Global Change". Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the iHEA Board has taken the decision that the 2021 iHEA Congress will be held virtually. The focus of the virtual event will be on...
NEWS | 07 Jun 2021
Senegal: journalists learn about the compulsory health insurance scheme for workers
Senegal
The virtual meeting was initiated by , the Institution de Coordination de l'Assurance Maladie Obligatoire (ICAMO). The aim was to equip journalists with the knowledge they need to understand the key concepts and challenges of compulsory health insurance, so that...