Over 6 million Kenyan mothers have benefitted since 2017 Linda Mama Program launch The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has assured Kenyans that the government-funded Linda Mama program whose aim is to reduce maternal and child mortality and alleviate the...
Starting in the financial year 2018/19, the Ministry of Health (MOH) began implementing Results-Based Financing (RBF) under the Uganda Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Improvement Project (URMCHIP). To operationalize RBF, the MOH introduced performance-linked...
The Afghan health system has been under stress in recent years. As a fragile and conflict-affected country(FCSList-FY23 World Bank), primary health care (PHC) is provided by nongovernmental organizations funded by multilateral or bilateral donors, not by the...
Zambia has invested in several healthcare financing reforms aimed at achieving universal access to health services. This study conducted a quasi-longitudinal benefit incidence analysis of public and overall health spending between 2006 and 2014 by combining data from...
One of the most cited barriers to accessing health services in most low and middle-income countries is distance to the facility, not only geographically but also financially. Direct and time costs of accessing and using health care may limit health care access, impact...
Protracted conflict in Lebanon has been a threat to the public healthcare system and the public Primary Healthcare Network (PHCN) in the country now aggravated by the COVID 19 Pandemic. This article looks at the challenges including the COVID 19, the civil war and the...
At the round table meeting conducted to discuss the collaboration between WHO Country Office in Kazakhstan, Vice Minister of Healthcare and the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aizhan Esmagambetova reminded that Kazakhstan aims to reach the...
Russian Ministry of Healthcare has allocated additional funding to the state programs named "Rural Doctor" and "Rural Physician Assitant to attract health care personnel to work in rural areas and small towns. The key change in a recently adopted policy was the...
On June 17, 2022, the international Network for Social Protection Rights (Insp!r-Mali), in partnership with Belgian organizations, officially launched the WSM/DGD program for the period 2022-2026 in the area of the right to social protection. The INSPIR-Mali network,...
Vyacheslav Dudnik, Vice Minister of Healthcare of Kazakhstan spoke at the Open Doors Event held by the Corporate Fund "University Medical Center" in capital city Nur-Sultan, dedicated to the International Children's Day on June 1. “The greatest happiness of parents is...
A workshop on Primary Health Care Finance, under the theme "Putting people first through investing in PHC", was held focusing on the recently published Lancet Global Health Commission report. The workshop was attended by the Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, the...
In the budget presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Sosten Gwengwe at the parliament earlier in March this year, the health sector was allocated the third-highest sectoral allocation behind education and agriculture, which amounts to about US$349...
Join us for the launch of the ILO Report, ‘Accessing Health Benefits Under the ESI Scheme: A Demand-side Perspective’, and a panel discussion on the views of the direct stakeholders of the ESI Scheme, on the incentives and obstacles that presently...
In Indonesia, BPJS Kesehatan, a Social Security Agency, committed to optimize promotional and preventive services at public primary health care centers. To incentive them, capitation payment is aligned to promotional-preventive service performance of the primary...
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...
