From September 12 to 14, 2013, a national workshop was held in Ouagadougou on the implementation of AMU and social mutuals. The objectives were to produce a synthesis of regional and sectoral consultations, to reach a national consensus on the main strategic and...
The Comité Technique Interministériel RAMU (CTI-RAMU) draws up its "First progress report on RAMU", the future universal health insurance scheme, and shares it with several development partners and the P4H network coordination office....
The MFPTSS is preparing and submitting a draft bill on social mutuality, which is still to be discussed by the Council of Ministers over the coming months. 2014_02_05_Gouv_Burkina-Avant_projet_loi_mutualite_sociale
Burkina chose to carry out two diagnoses simultaneously: one based on documentation and another based on interviews (this one). The idea behind this consultancy was also to find the time to raise awareness of healthcare financing and its major challenges.
For the Cadre Stratégique de Dialogue (CSD), the Ministry of Social Action releases a first version of the 2013 annual performance report for the social protection sector. 2014_03_05_Gouv_Burkina-Projet_rapport_performances_CSD-PPS_version16fev2014 And technical and...
A meeting between ST-AMU, the EU Delegation and WHO is being held as part of the preparations for the 11th EDF (2014-2020). 2014_04_02_AB-Compte_rendu_rencontre_UE-OMS-ST_AMU
The "nutrition and health" sectoral framework of the SCADD (Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development) has long recommended the development of a national health financing strategy. A scoping workshop will be held from February 16 to 18 in Koudougou,...
In March 2013, in the Council of Ministers, the government decided to speed up the implementation of AMU by linking it with social mutuals. 2014_05_29_MFPTSS_Burkina-Cadre_Strategique_Developpement_Mutuelles_Sociales_final
The healthcare fee exemption for under 5 has been regularly discussed in the last years. The end of the financial support from ECHO to pilot projects implemented with INGO support has once again brought the issue in the MOH agenda. The link with the SHI perspective...
Minutes of the SNFS n°1 June 2015 editorial workshop A dozen technicians met for the first time for a week. They sketched out the architecture of the SNFS. They also put forward a series of questions for debate before being translated into measures (mini-reforms)....
The second SNFS-CU editorial workshop was held from August 31 to September 3, 2015. It was attended by around ten people, technicians from the Ministry of Health, ST AMU, MEF (DGB) and PTFs (DUE, World Bank and WHO). Within this framework, the issues identified in the...
The WHO/P4H focal point shares a "non-paper" from ST AMU. The result of lengthy work by the ST-AMU (the structure of the Ministry of the Civil Service, Labor and Social Security in charge of the AMU dossier), the brief shared here is a document that summarizes the...
The Ministry of Health has decided to play its part in everyone's effort to ensure the continuity of the targeted payment exemption pilots that could be taken over by AMU. Reminder: since 2007, pilot payment exemption schemes for children under the age of 5 have been...
At the end of its third workshop, the SNFS Editorial Committee drew up a "draft 0". Following the refinement of certain questions and the circulation of draft 0 to the members of the Thematic Commission "Health Financing", the Drafting Committee met a fourth time in...
Preparations for the implementation of free access measures in Burkina Faso are carried out transparently. Here we share technical documents and an update from the PTF Santé meeting. - Tools and procedures developed by the Ministry of Health: EDC training - Risk...
