Papua New Guinea faces many challenges to their rural healthcare system, especially important considering most of the population lives in rural areas. To address these deficiencies, the government created a 10-year National Health Plan. Regarding health financing,...
This health development plan seeks to improve equitable access of the population of Equatorial Guinea to quality health services in order to move towards universal health coverage .
In order to boost the programmatic and management capacity of the National Health System, this event focused on reports on the logistics management of medicines as a pillar to guarantee the availability and quality of health services at all levels, and analyzed health...
WHO together with the P4H country focal person initiated the preparation of a concept note for conducting a high-level policy dialogue on health financing for pandemic preparedness with technical inputs from the P4H Coordination Desk. The draft concept note was shared...
October 2021 – March 2022 WHO together with the P4H country focal person held discussions with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) UK, Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and the World Bank, in particular how a high-level policy dialogue between the...
In the continued dialogue with MOH on health financing for COVID-19, it was discussed that the numerous pieces of work conducted in the country along with the learnings from COVID-19 and other health emergencies now presents an opportunity for the country to conduct...
Tashkent hosted the fifth meeting of the Ministers of Health of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states chaired by Uzbekistan. The Minister of Health of Uzbekistan Bekhzod Musaev and the SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming addressed the participants with a...
The organization of a business forum in healthcare was discussed by the Ministers of Health of Azerbaijan and Turkey among other cooperation activities in health care, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health reported. The Minister of Health of...
First Vice Minister of Healthcare of Kazakhstan Marat Shoranov participated in the Fifth Meeting of Health Ministers of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Speaking at the meeting, Marat Shoranov noted that the principle of universal access to...
On June 29, 2022, public hearings were held on proposed prices for the services provided by the single payor -- the Social Health Insurance Fund. Public hearings are required to approve the prices of services provided by a state monopoly entity, such as the...
The Committee for Social and Cultural Development of the Lower Chamber of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a round table discussion on mandatory social health insurance attended by the Members of the Parliament, representatives of the Ministry of Health...
This workshop aims to disseminate the main findings of a comprehensive assessment of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Health Insurance scheme and to improve understanding and share a common vision on the extension of social health protection coverage in...
On the occasion of the launching of the L4UHC programme in Cambodia, the French Embassy hosted a cocktail reception at the Residence of the Ambassador of France on the 31st of May. The first in-country workshop has taken place on the 30th and 31st of May. 21...
In March 2021, Parliament passed the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill mandating all Ugandans aged 18- years and above to contribute to access health services. However, president, Yoweri Museveni is yet to give an approval of the Bill. The speaker of parliament...
In this paper, the authors provide a contextual and political-economic analysis of health financing reforms in Uganda and in particular dispelling the fears and misconceptions related to introduction of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The path to health...
