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...
The webinar series titled Health Financing in India was launched to bring together national and international health systems and financing experts, economists, and researchers to discuss the burning health financing and social health protection issues in the country...
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has published a 2021 report titled “Reforming healthcare in Uzbekistan: what role for the international community?” available in English, Uzbek and Russian languages here This report examines the state of the...
At a stakeholders meeting to deliberate on ways to strengthen community systems towards achieving UHC, the consensus was that Nigeria must improve on its health sector financing if the country is to meet the UHC target by 2030. The president of the Nigerian medical...
In low -income countries, health systems face a multitude of competing priorities amidst limited resources and Botswana is no exception. To ensure sustainable health financing, the expansion of health insurance coverage offers promise for many health systems in low...
President Sahlework Zewde met with UN’s Assistant Secretary-General and WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, in Addis Ababa where they discussed the status of Universal Health (UHC) coverage in Ethiopia. Read more here.
