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NEWS | 24 Feb 2021
Vietnam prioritizes poor on road to universal healthcare: US think tank
Vietnam
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NEWS | 09 Feb 2021
Burkina Faso draws up a new national health development plan
Burkina Faso
The Minister of Health, Pr Charlemagne Ouédraogo, has officially launched the process of drawing up the new National Health Development Plan (PNDS-2021-2030). A new ten-year plan in which the alignment of technical and financial partners is one of the key objectives....
NEWS | 05 Feb 2021
Burkina Faso: General Policy Statement by the Prime Minister
Burkina Faso
The Burkinabe Prime Minister's general policy statement was presented to the elected representatives of the Fourth Republic. It focused on four (4) main themes: : 1-consolidate peace, security, social cohesion and promote national reconciliation; 2- deepen...
NEWS | 20 Jan 2021
Discussion on potential areas of collaboration and joint support to health system strengthening initiatives in the Sultanate
Oman
WHO Representative in Oman, Dr Jean Jabbour, meets with HM Consul General and Deputy Head of Mission- British Embassy Muscat, Mr James Goldman, to discuss potential areas of collaboration and joint support to health system strengthening initiatives in the Sultanate.
NEWS | 19 Jan 2021
Webinar: More money for health services: what is the role of PFM in the “new normal”?
Historically, public financial management (PFM) has been overlooked in academic and policy discussions on the availability of domestic resources. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that shows the impact of PFM processes on the quality and volume of...
NEWS | 12 Jan 2021
HEALTH FINANCING PROGRESS MATRIX 2.0 Accelerating progress to UHC – LAUNCH EVENT
Please join us next Wednesday 16 December from 14:30-15:30 CET for the launch of the Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 (HFPM). I would also like to convey my sincere wishes that this is the last event that WHO’s health financing team will organize as part of the...
NEWS | 12 Jan 2021
Geneva Health Forum (GHF) 16th November 2020 Session
On 16th November 2020, the Geneva Health Forum held a session titled "Extending social health protection, promoting equity”. Details of the session: https://dev.ghf2020.org/session-2-5.php You can see also the link of the video; https://youtu.be/HHemhvmh2X0 ...
NEWS | 05 Jan 2021
UHC in State Counsellor’s New Year’s Speech
Myanmar
Myanmar's State Counsellor mentioned UHC in her New Year's Speech. See page 6 in attached link. https://www.facebook.com/state.counsellor/posts/2170201099780761 The unofficial translation would be - "....... Universal Health Coverage is a promise we...
NEWS | 21 Dec 2020
Workshop on motivations for joining mutual health insurance companies
Burkina Faso
From December 08 to 09, 2020, was held in the Maurice Yaméogo meeting room of Excellence Hôtel in Koudougou, a workshop to reflect on the motivations for joining social mutuals in Burkina Faso. This workshop, co-organized by the Direction Générale de la Protection...
NEWS | 18 Dec 2020
Mozambique’s Ministry of Health issues its first PEFA Strategy
Mozambique
Mozambique's Ministry of Health has launched its PEFA strategy to respond to challenges identified in the PEFA report (2020). In the PEFA diagnostic, the area that presents more challenges is credibility of the budget, especially execution of funds and of...
NEWS | 19 Nov 2020
“Governance in support of Common Goods for Health: Regional and country perspective” – Today webinar 19 November 2020 – 1pm Geneva Time
Over the last few years, global health systems experts have begun to make progress coalescing a shared understanding of the priority actions needed for effective health system governance. In many countries, both rich and poor, COVID-19 has shed light on governance...
DOCUMENT | 22 Oct 2020
National strategy for CSU in Niger 2021-2030
Niger
NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE IN NIGER - 2021-2030 DRAFT DOCUMENT AND MULTI-YEAR ACTION PLAN October 2019
NEWS | 22 Oct 2020
Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance: a wrong track for LMICs? Watch the webinar!
The video of the first webinar of the WHO HGF series organized in partnership with the P4H Network and Emerging Voices, "The Case Against Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance for Low- And Low-Middle-Income Countries" is now available! In low and...
DOCUMENT | 30 Sep 2020
Policy dialogue and participation: a new way of crafting a national health financing strategy in Morocco
Key messages of the paper Policy dialogue approaches legitimise the adoption of a health financing strategy. Participation in designing health financing strategies is important for a shared vision on health financing. Policy dialogue for health financing strategies...
DOCUMENT | 14 Sep 2020
Mobilising tax revenues to finance the health system in Morocco
Morocco
Morocco’s health spending remains low, constituting just 5.2% of GDP in 2017—below the average for upper-middle income countries. Household out-of-pocket payments make up a disproportionately high share of health financing, leading to inequity and regressivity. To...