A research paper published in the December 2023 Issue of the Lancet Global Health on how 15 countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic through their health financing policies. The paper has been co-authored by Aungsumalee Pholpark, Community Facilitator for the Asia...
Workshop on PPR and P4H Technical Exchange Group
The event included two parts: Part 1 - Workshop on how to maximize the health impact of social protection systems in the context of epidemics and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response PPR). Sessions were facilitated by members of the P4H Technical Exchange...
Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis
The October Edition of Lancet Global Health has published a research article on catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID 19 Pandemic in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Viet Nam.The COVID-19...
The African Union in the G20: What Will the Implications Be For Health Financing in Africa?
The African Union's admission to the G20 gives it a platform to influence the post-COVID health financing agenda to benefit the financing challenges in the region says this article from Health Policy Watch.Africa faces a challenging period in health financing to meet...
Epidemics and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response: How to maximize the health impact of social protection systems
4-5 October | ILO HQ and Online ILO, WHO, P4H Network and SPARKS Network are organizing a workshop for social protection and health practitioners working to promote and extend coverage and financing to deliberate upon the ways in which social protection policies can...
G20 Joint Finance and Health Ministerial Taskforce advances global health financing strategies
The G20 Joint Finance-Health Task Force (JFHTF) is actively working towards optimizing financing mechanisms to address various health challenges, especially in low and middle-income countries.The G20 Member nations have strongly emphasized the need for swift and...
Health Financing in a Time of Global Shocks: Strong Advance, Early Retreat
This latest paper of the World Bank's Double Shock, Double Recovery series, Health Financing in a Time of Global Shocks, is a first attempt to comprehensively gauge how government health spending has fared in developing countries over the past three years – a period...
Public financing for health in times of COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific Region
A discussion paper published by World Bank in collaboration with the Joint Learning Network, It is part of a series produced by the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank. The papers in this series aim to provide a vehicle for...
OECD report Ready for the Next Crisis? Investing in Health System Resilience
The Report sheds light on the health systems challenges exacerbated by the COVID 19 pandemic globally. How can governments overcome lack of preparation and staff and underinvestment to adapt their health systems to be ready for the next crisis? Having challenged...
Message to the nation of Mali on the situation COVID-19 – April 2020
As of today, Mali has 87 infected patients. Sadly, this figure is set to rise in the days to come, if evil unrolls its merciless machinery there, as it has elsewhere, spreading mourning in its wake, instilling fear and anxiety everywhere, and battering even the...
Covid-19 : un défi pour les systèmes de gestion des finances publiques (Blog – BM)
https://blogs.worldbank.org/fr/voices/covid-19-un-defi-pour-les-systemes-de-gestion-des-finances-publiques 1. Financer la riposte sans tarder et avec clarté 2. Recentrer les contrôles sans pour autant les affaiblir 3. Assurer une gestion efficace de la trésorerie 4....
Financement 20M$ Banque Mondiale pour le secteur Santé (Avril 2020)
Le communiqué de presse (2 avril 2020) : https://www.banquemondiale.org/fr/news/press-release/2020/04/01/world-bank-approves-us20-million-grant-to-support-covid-19-response-in-haiti Le Document de Projet :...
100 million to finance the acquisition of Covid vaccines in Tunisia
In a joint statement, WHO and UNICEF announce that to date (10/02/2021), almost 130 countries, representing 2.5 billion people, have not yet administered a single dose. Tunisia is on its way out of this hole with a loan of several tens of millions of...
Congolese civil society in the fight against Covid19
A civil society mini-dialogue opened on April 27 in Pointe-Noire on the identification of needs for the fight against Covid19. According to the departmental health directorate, this workshop marks the start of the process of drawing up the grant needed to...
Global spending on health: rising to the pandemic’s challenges – Virtual launch of the 2022 Global Health Expenditure Report
This year’s Global Health Expenditure Report: Rising to the Pandemic's Challenges reveals how health expenditure was impacted during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report explores: Whether the health spending patterns by governments, households,...