The workshop was organized to finalize the SNPS 2022-2026 document, which will be submitted to the Government for adoption. The workshop will provide an opportunity to : Incorporate relevant comments made during the Steering Committee meeting held on February...
Conference on Digital Health in Chad
The conference is organized under the aegis of the Ministry of Health by the Telemedicine Program, Swiss TPH and the World Bank, with technical support from the SysRef and PADS teams, in partnership with the Centre de Support en Santé Internationale (CSSI) and the...

The Ministry of Health inaugurates the Board of Directors of the Gambia National Health Insurance Scheme authority
The ministry of health on 5th May, 2022 inaugurated the board of directors of the newly established National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) authority. Speaking at the event the Minister for Health Doctor Ahmadou Lamin Samateh said this move is long conceived by the...

New document about the political economy of health financing reforms available on Zimbabwe country page
An article discussing the impact of the political economy on the effective implementation of health financing reforms to ensure Universal Health Coverage has been uploaded on the Zimbabwe country page. The article was recently published in the BMC international...
The political economy of health financing reforms in Zimbabwe: a scoping review
This study explores the interaction between the political and economic aspects of health financing reforms in Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980. Health financing reform often involves complex interactions among many stakeholders of varying positions, power, and...
Cameroon: Workshop to define a financing mechanism for the CSU pilot phase
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with WHO and with the support of the P4H Focal Person, is organizing a workshop from May 04 to 07, 2022 in Douala to define the financing mechanism for the CSU pilot phase, scheduled to start in 2023. This workshop will...

New publication: WHO Step-by-step guide to conducting a cross-programmatic efficiency analysis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a diagnostic approach to enable countries to look across health programmes that are part of their health system to detect “cross-programmatic” inefficiencies. The approach uses applied health system analysis to unpack...
The South Africa National Health Insurance bill
In 2019, the South African government committed to establishing a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Fund to ensure that the most vulnerable are protected from catastrophic expenditures from medical expenses to attain universal health coverage. This NHI Act,...

Russia is strengthening primary care as means of efficient resource management in health care
The Ministry of Health of Russia held a Board meeting (Collegium meeting) dedicated to primary health care in the Russian Federation. “Improvement of public health indicators, prevention of premature mortality, increase in life expectancy of citizens are largely...
Study of the potential for expanding the budgetary space dedicated to health in the Republic of Burundi
The political economy of universal health coverage reform in Thailand: Lessons for low- and middle-income countries
Thailand achieved universal health coverage (UHC) with three public health insurance schemes in 2002. This study examines how political economy factors influenced the evolution of universal health coverage reform in Thailand by applying the political economy...

New document on the political economy of UHC reform in Thailand is now available
Thailand achieved universal health coverage (UHC) with three public health insurance schemes in 2002. This study examined how political economy factors influenced the evolution of the UHC reform in Thailand by applying the political economy framework. This study...
Political economy and the pursuit of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Ghana: a case study of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
In this study, the authors document the political pathway to the implementation of the NHIS in Ghana as well as the continuous political will supporting the scheme. The political structure as well as advocacy strength play a critical role in setting budgets for...

New document available on Ghana country page
An article discussing the importance of political will in the implementation of a national health insurance has been uploaded to the Ghana country page. The full article can be accessed using the link below.
The political economy of health financing reform in Malaysia
There is growing evidence that political economy factors are important for adopting health financing reforms, but there is little consensus about which political and institutional factors determine the results of reform proposals. This study examined efforts at health...