First Deputy Minister of Healthcare and Acting Minister of Healthcare Teymur Musayev received a delegation led by Russian Healthcare Minister Mikhail Murashko. The event was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to...
CIS executive committee has released its weekly issue for October 29- Novermber 4 period of the Bulletin titled "CIS countries efforts in the fight against coronavirus disease". The Bulletin traditionally includes review of 11 CIS Member States' activities in times of...
The Geneva Health Forum and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute are pleased to invite you to the GHF Virtual Roundtable, "Improving Health Insurance Coverage in LMICs" taking place on Monday, 22 November 2021, 12:00-14:00 CET, with simultaneous translation...
Capital of Belarus, Minsk hosted a meeting of the Working Group on the integration of national e-health systems of CIS Member States. Agenda was centered around the development of a Roadmap for telemedicine in the CIS. While welcoming the participants of the...
Ministry of Healthcare of Kazakhstan held a round table discussion on the results of the pilot implementation of the Mechanism for Informed Public Monitoring and Feedback from the Population (MIPM) in health care organizations in Kazakhstan and adopting of the...
The President of Turkmenistan proposed the creation of the Central Asian Regional Center for Epidemiology, Virology and Bacteriology on August 6, 2021, during a Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia, held in the city of Turkmenbashi....
WHO has published a report titled "Budgetary space for health in Ukraine. Policy document to support budget preparation dialogue for 2021". This report describes how Ukraine was kick-starting dialogue on increasing funding for health care; a challenging task in...
A regular meeting of the Council for Cooperation in Healthсare of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held on October 13 in Minsk - capital of Belarus. Participants discussed 26 agenda items related to a broad array of healthcare issues in the CIS...
Meeting background: Since 2014 WHO has convened the Montreux Collaborative bi-annual meeting bringing together experts and partners to discuss the critical relationship between fiscal space, public financial management (PFM) and health financing towards advancing...
This report charts the history of the National Health Insurance Law (NHIL) passed in 1995 that enabled sustainable, high-quality medical care to all eligible Israeli residents. It is based on key takeaways from the 19th annual Dead Sea conference (held by the Israel...
The study aims to identify, describe and analyse changes in private hospitals in the volume of publicly and privately funded elective procedures, and private health expenditure for surgical procedures. Since 2015, several reforms and programmes have been initiated in...
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Strategic Review: An independent report prepared by Dalberg, was published on Friday, 8th October 2021. This report was commissioned by the World Health Organization, on behalf of the ACT-Accelerator partners and as host...
In light of the centrality of UHC in driving current health policy in Kenya, this paper examines the value interests that influence agenda setting in the country’s health financing space. Given the plurality of Kenya’s health policy levers, the authors aimed to...
The overall objective of the Kenyan’s health sector is to attain universal coverage of critical services that positively contribute to the health of the population. The government of Kenya recognised the critical role that health financing plays and embarked on...
The Ministry of Health and Social Services will hold its National Planning and Financial Management meeting between the 12-15 October 2021. The meeting serves as an important platform for reviewing and approving the Directorates annual plans, addressing critical...
