Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico have made progress towards UHC, although "better financial protection is required". These countries achieved an overall index of essential coverage of 76-77%, and households out of pocket health expenditures fall below 25%. New...
Peru faces the challenge of the financial transition of its health system, which consists of replacing a scheme highly dependent on out-of-pocket spending to a pooled system where health system users use pre-payment systems and/or health insurance to share the...
The document presents a review of the different social protection systems in Chile, and Chapter VI analyzes the health system, indicating that the 2004 Law establishes the Explicit Health Guarantees (GES) as guarantees of the state health system. In 2005, an initial...
Bottlenecks related to the execution of health expenditures are often related to the public financial management rules and procedures put in place. These procedures are sometimes incompatible and creates hurdles for the Ministry of Health to react quickly to a health...
The overall objective is to enable Ministry of Public Health stakeholders to master the budget process in order to improve health financing. Specifically, the training aims to: To present the different steps for a good planning-programming-budgeting and...
Even though the 2022-23 budget allocation is an improvement from 9% last year to 10%, it failed to meet the 15% target for health sector set by the Abuja Declaration. If public services are not adequately financed and households are forced to look for care from...
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe says the Kenyan government is committed to expanding health service coverage with a focus on quality as well as reduction of healthcare costs. Speaking in Malindi while inaugurating board of directors of the, National Health...
The AUDA-NEPAD Development Fund (AUDF) held its first technical meeting for the West Africa Regional Health Financing Hub (RHFH) process in Accra, Ghana from the 29th to the 31st of August 2022. The meeting was the first step in kickstarting the process of...
The government of Uganda is in process of implementing the national health insurance scheme (NHIS)with the goal of improving financial risk protection and attaining universal health coverage. In this article see the questions to and the responses from the chief...
This report, available in English and Spanish, presents the findings of a literature review conducted to inform a better understanding of the Honduran context for expanding social health protection to women at risk of migration, as well as other vulnerable populations.
This report, available in English and Spanish, presents the findings of a literature review conducted to inform our understanding of the context in Honduras to expand social protection in health to women who are at risk of migration, as well as other vulnerable...
New documents available on the Honduras country page.
Tanzania has undertaken important health sector reforms in the last decade with the goal of attaining universal health coverage (UHC). In the recent Health Sector Strategic Plan (2021–26), the country lays out ambitious targets to achieve UHC. Yet, women in Tanzania...
The P4H Focal Person in Cameroon, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Family, is building the capacity of the Ministry of Health on the theme of gender-sensitive budgeting, with a view to taking into...
First Vice Minister of Healthcare of Kazakhstan Marat Shoranov participated in the Fifth Meeting of Health Ministers of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Speaking at the meeting, Marat Shoranov noted that the principle of universal access to...
