On 1st March 2021, Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety tabled a Report: Care Dignity and Respect, which highlighted the declining quality of aged care for elderly Australians due to decreasing funding levels (AU$ 9.8bn cut over two...
Government Slammed for Spending Less on Healthcare, More on Infrastructure
Senior economist Faisal Basri during a webinar on Friday criticized the reduced healthcare budget the government had allocated in the 2021 State Budget (APBN). He highlighted the fact that the healthcare budget had dropped from Rp212.5 trillion in 2020 to...
Burkina Faso joins the Global Laboratory Leadership Program
" Global Laboratory Leadership Program (GLLP) or Programme mondial pour le leadership des Laboratoires au Burkina Faso " was born of the collaboration of six international organizations that support the development of laboratory systems worldwide. The...
Burkina Faso joins the Global Laboratory Leadership Program
" Global Laboratory Leadership Program (GLLP) or Programme mondial pour le leadership des Laboratoires au Burkina Faso " was born of the collaboration of six international organizations that support the development of laboratory systems worldwide. The...
Thai Government goes cool on joining vaccine pact
Thailand is still in two minds about joining the COVAX Programme to procure COVID-19 vaccines for its citizens. According to the country’s Public Health Ministry, the terms of COVAX are ‘too limiting’ to invest billions of bath as deposit to join. Fears are that the...
Health getting mere 1% of 2021 national budget for infrastructure – Recto
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Wednesday scored the “biggest factory defect” in the proposed P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget, citing how health infrastructure would be getting only a “microscopic” 1 percent share of total spending for government...
Mali: the National Health Insurance Fund draws up a budget of around 140 million USD for 2021
Mali's Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie (Canam) held its 22nd board meeting in Bamako on Wednesday February 24. Directors considered the activity report and budget performance for the year ended November 30, 2020, before voting on the activity report and draft...
Despite Pandemic, Health Budget Sees Little Real Increase – Water and sanitation outlays included in the health budget
"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new healthcare scheme--the Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana--with a Rs 64,180-crore ($8.7 billion) outlay. The Centre's allocation to the health ministry for 2020-21 was Rs 67,112 crore ($9.18...
Budget 2021: Allocation to Healthcare more than doubles after Pandemic
"India will more than double its spending on healthcare in the next fiscal year as it aims to boost the sector crippled by the coronavirus pandemic". Read more...
Call for reproductive health-sensitive budgets
Gustave Bambara is Director of Population Policy at the Ministry of the Economy. He is also a member of the CSU Leadership Training Group. He justifies the holding of this workshop by the fact that, like the other countries of West Africa, Burkina Faso is facing...
Mozambique to update costing of health services with OneHealth tool
Mozambique has embarked in the new phase of costing health services with the One Health tool, supported by WHO. The objective is to approximate costs of all programs and cost items of the health system. This is an essential part of planning and budgetary...
Lives and livelihoods: a decision framework for social and movement measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Edith Patouillard, Andrew Mirelman, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Agnès Soucat Across the world, policy makers are implementing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, protect the health care system and people’s health. While there is no vaccine...
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More than 200 high-level individuals have been involved in L4UHC, from health and financial specialists through to politicians and representatives of civil society. Find out what they think about the programme, and how it has helped countries progress UHC, in the...