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...
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'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...
"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...
"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...
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 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...
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...
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...
The GFF partnership supports the country's efforts to improve equity and efficiency in service delivery and financing, mobilize the private sector, collaborate with civil society and coordinate donor support. You'll find all the information you need to keep up to date...
La asociación del GFF apoya los esfuerzos del país por mejorar la equidad y la eficiencia en la prestación de servicios y la financiación, movilizar al sector privado, trabajar con la sociedad civil y coordinar el apoyo de los donantes. Aquí puede encontrar toda la...
The Ghana Universal Health Coverage (UHC) roadmap outlines a strategic commitment to improve healthcare, inspired by global frameworks like the Sustainable Development Goals and UHC 2030 Compact. Through extensive stakeholder consultations, priority services have been...
