GIZ and SHIF trained 16 financial staff in Karakalpakstan to implement health insurance mechanisms, supporting Uzbekistan's healthcare reform launching in January 2025. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the State Health Insurance...
Moldova will receive a €36.2 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The authorities will spend this money on improving the quality and increasing the availability of rehabilitation services in public medical institutions in...
In 2024, an estimated 11 million Pakistanis, or 4.4% of the population, are projected to face impoverishment due to out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. To combat this trend and advance universal health coverage, increasing government health spending is essential....
WHO Barcelona course on health financing for universal health coverage, tailored for Central Asia, was held on October 15-18 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The course brought together national policymakers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,...
Five Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan - participated in a Regional Forum on Strengthening Financial Resilience and Accelerating Risk Reduction (SFRARR) in Central Asia, held in Almaty on October 14-15,...
The Ministry of Health of Latvia announced financial incentives for doctors who fill in the vacancies in the public sector. A total of 6.9 million euros from the European Union will allow a one-time compensation equal to nine monthly salaries, between 7000 -16000...
The State Agency for Compulsory Medical Insurance successfully implemented its 2024 Communication Strategy, holding 300 awareness events in public institutions, schools, universities, and religious communities. These efforts enhance transparency and access to MHI...
Mr Zaur Aliyev, Chairman of the Executive Board, State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance of Azerbaijan, visited Ankara, Turkey, on June 12-13 and met with Dr Raci Kaya, Chairman of State Security Council of Turkey, where they extended the Memorandum of...
On 24 June 2024, the National Social Assistance Fund (NSAF), in collaboration with GIZ Cambodia and the P4H Network and presided over by Mr. Hour Tola, Deputy Director General of NSAF, conducted the first of a series of regional training workshop in Siem Reap...
The purpose of the visit by Azerbaijan's State Agency for Compulsory Health Insurance to Japan on June 24-28 was to learn about Japan's achievements in the field of compulsory health insurance and to strengthen international cooperation in healthcare.The delegation...
From May 22 to 25, 2024, the P4H focal person in Cameroon supported a training course on social protection in health, Universal Health Coverage and Gender. The training was attended by officials from several ministerial departments involved in social protection. Some...
The P4H network, in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, ILO, the World Bank and the L4UHC group, is organizing a training session on universal health coverage, social health protection and gender in the context of the implementation of CSU in Cameroon.To achieve the above...
During the visit of the delegation from the French School of Public Health, Abylkair Skakov, CEO of Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), noted the high importance of capacity building for staff from a potential collaboration with the French colleagues and from...
Following the success of previous training sessions on the practical use of the "Onehealth" tool, "IDYNAM PLUS" Consulting services, at the request of partners and organizations, is offering its second 2024 training session on the unified planning and budgeting tool....
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is organising an online course for practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and other stakeholders who have some familiarity with methods for economic evaluation and want to increase their basic understanding of benefit-cost...
