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NEWS | 08 Aug 2022
Fiji’s Climate Change and Health Strategic Action Plan 2016-2020 is now available
Fiji
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DOCUMENT | 03 Aug 2022
Fiji: Climate change and Health Strategic Action Plan 2016-2020
Fiji
Climate change is a big concern for Fiji. It has a direct impact on these island states because of their geographic location. Therefore, the government saw it fit to address climate change as a health concern and developed this plan as a response. The document was...
DOCUMENT | 03 Aug 2022
Papua New Guinea: National Health Plan 2011–2020
Papua New Guinea
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,...
NEWS | 01 Aug 2022
Technical Meeting on Budgeting for the National Health Development Plan in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea
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...
NEWS | 21 Jul 2022
WHO Country Office has initiated to develop the concept note on the high-level policy dialogue on health financing for pandemic preparedness
Ethiopia
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...
NEWS | 21 Jul 2022
The P4H CFP undertakes activities to develop joint ownership with the development partners on national budgetary dialogue
Ethiopia
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...
NEWS | 21 Jul 2022
Ethiopia considers to conduct a high-level policy dialogue around health financing for pandemic preparedness
Ethiopia
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...
NEWS | 19 Jul 2022
Uzbekistan chairs the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and hosts Health Ministers’ meeting
Uzbekistan
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...
NEWS | 15 Jul 2022
Health financing and investment opportunities to be discussed at a health forum by Azerbaijan and Turkey
Azerbaijan
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...
NEWS | 13 Jul 2022
Universal access to health care declared as Kazakhstan’s priority at Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting
Kazakhstan
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...
NEWS | 13 Jul 2022
Health Insurance Fund held public hearings on pricing of its services
Kazakhstan
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...
NEWS | 13 Jul 2022
Parliament Members discussed steps to improve the health insurance system
Kazakhstan
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...
NEWS | 13 Jul 2022
Cambodia 13-14.07.2022- Third Visioning Workshop: Extension of social health protection in pursuit of UHC in Cambodia
Cambodia
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...
NEWS | 01 Jul 2022
Cambodia – Celebration at the French Embassy of the launching of L4UHC programme in Cambodia
Cambodia
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...
NEWS | 27 Jun 2022
Uganda Parliament asked to reconsider National Health Insurance Bill
Uganda
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...