The 15th EPH Conference in Berlin will be the first EPH Conference since Marseille 2019 to take place live and in person from 9 – 12 November. The theme of Berlin 2022 is ‘Strengthening health systems: improving population health and being prepared for...
En route to CSU: Cameroon and Chad share experiences
Exchanges and sharing of experiences on strategies for moving towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC): Cameroon receives a delegation from Chad from September 05 to 09, 2022 . This mission will provide an opportunity to present the progress made by each country,...
Cameroon: Training workshop on gender budgeting for social and financial protection in healthcare
The P4H Focal Person in Cameroon, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Family, is building the capacity of the Ministry of Health on the theme of gender-sensitive budgeting, with a view to taking into...
World Bank funds COVID-19 response project in Turkmenistan
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Turkmenistan on Wednesday handed over another batch of test systems for PCR diagnostics of COVID-19 to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan. According to a UNDP press release, the consignment was...
ICU equipment worth $222 300 USD was funded by the World Bank for Turkmenistan
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) donated medical equipment for intensive care units to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, as announced by UNDP this Monday. The batch was donated as part of the “COVID-19 response in...
Information systems will simplify the work of the Health Insurance Fund
Information systems will simplify the work of the Health Insurance Fund in Uzbekistan and will also help control the quality of services provided, according to the memorandum of cooperation in digitalization of healthcare, signed between three companies: the Digital...
Azerbaijan’s digitalization in health care is part of the new digital economy
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...
Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic increased doctors’ salaries
In efforts to better finance human resources, the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic increased doctors' salaries starting April 1, 2022. The Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic explained how the salaries of doctors have increased since April 1. Official...
Kazakhstan aims to have at least 50% of pharmaceuticals produced domestically by 2025
In a recent meeting between the Minister of Healthcare of Kazakhstan Azhar Giniyat and the State Minister of Foreign Affairs and Culture of the Republic of India Meenakshi Lekhi, the parties discussed cooperation in health care between Kazakhstan and India....
Russia is investing funds to attract health workers to rural areas
Russian Ministry of Healthcare has allocated additional funding to the state programs named "Rural Doctor" and "Rural Physician Assitant to attract health care personnel to work in rural areas and small towns. The key change in a recently adopted policy was the...
Workshop held to strengthen the basic health care financial system in Ethiopia
A workshop on Primary Health Care Finance, under the theme "Putting people first through investing in PHC", was held focusing on the recently published Lancet Global Health Commission report. The workshop was attended by the Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, the...
Oman MOH conducts workshop ‘Toward excellence and innovation in financial management in the Ministry of Health’
Oman’s Ministry of Health (MOH) conducted a three-day workshop titled ‘’Toward Excellence and Innovation in Financial Management’’ to discuss scientific methods for increasing the MOH fiscal space. Oman aims to get a high return on investing in people's...
Health Financing Training in Kep, 29.03-01.04.2022
Fruitful Health Financing Training in Kep with GS-NSPC, WHO, GIZ and P4H!
Webinar Series for Awareness-building on DRG for UHC
TARGET PARTICIPANTS: This e-learning course aims at building up knowledge and learning experiences for participants from countries that want to pursue the universal health coverage policy with payment to acute inpatient care with diagnosis-related group tools. The...
Uzbekistan adopted a roadmap of projects with UNICEF worth 102.5 mln USD
Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, together with UNICEF, agreed to implement a set of projects worth $102.5 million. The Minister of Health of Uzbekistan B. Musaev and the head of the UNICEF country office M. Mammadzade signed the Road Map of activities between MoH and...