DOCUMENT | 22 May 2019
UNAIDS HIV Userfees mission_Cameroon_Debrief
Cameroon
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NEWS | 16 Apr 2019
Stories from the field # 6
Welcome to the latest issue of 'Stories from the field', all about how countries are working to achieve universal health coverage. In Issue 6 we share Samoa's approach to tackling the problem of non-communicable diseases through a primary health care approach. We...
NEWS | 16 Apr 2019
Stories from the field # 3
Welcome to a new issue of Stories from the field, with great features about Sri Lanka's focus on primary health care, and Oman's work on patient safety. In 2019, we will continue to share your many stories of change from the field. If you have a...
NEWS | 10 Mar 2019
Workshop to launch and plan the 2nd phase of the support program for Chad’s health districts
Chad
From January 24 to 25, 2019, the Ministry of Public Health organized jointly with the Swiss Cooperation Office a planning workshop for the second phase of the support program for health districts in Chad. The workshop brought together state institutions, technical and...
NEWS | 28 Feb 2019
Mozambique amongst countries with lower risk of catastrophic expenditure in Africa
Mozambique
Data of Bugdet Household Surveys have been compiled to estimate incidence of catastrophic expenditure in Africa, available at McIntyre, D. et al (2018): Challenges in Financing Universal Health Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa, published by the Oxford Encyclopedia of...
NEWS | 21 Feb 2019
Global Health Spending report: out with a bang!
Hot off the press - Groundbreaking report on Global Health Financing from WHO Shaping the future of Health Systems : lessons from Global health expenditure Things are moving fast in the health sector! Global expenditure in health illustrate this trend, which the...
NEWS | 28 Jan 2019
Workshop to launch the National Health and Social Development Plan 2019-2028
Senegal
The National Health and Social Development Plan III (2019-2028) is the reference document for the Senegalese government's health policy. This new plan will consolidate the achievements of previous plans and is adapted to current needs and to national, sub-regional and...
DOCUMENT | 21 Jan 2019
Social protection in an electorally competitive environment (2): The politics of health insurance in Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic of
This paper analyses the introduction and expansion of health insurance schemes in Tanzania. Health insurances were introduced around year 2000 as part of a more general health reform process aimed at improving access to health services. The paper argues that the...
DOCUMENT | 18 Jan 2019
2016 EAC regional health policy
NEWS | 08 Nov 2018
The adoption of the Astana Declaration is a historic event in the field of global health
Kazakhstan
40 years after the Declaration of Alma-Ata on primary health care Astana Declaration sets the course for achieving universal health coverage. Countries from around the world have signed the Astana Declaration, reaffirming their desire to strengthen primary health care...
NEWS | 08 Nov 2018
The success of primary health care is a movement around the world in support of primary health care as the most effective strategy for achieving universal health coverage
Kazakhstan
From 25 to 26 October, the Global Conference on Primary Health Care was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, together with WHO, UNICEF and the Government of Kazakhstan. The countries have signed the Astana Declaration on PHC "From Almaty to Universal Healthcare Coverage and...
DOCUMENT | 06 Oct 2018
Technical note on CSU system architecture in Cameroon
Cameroon
The architecture of universal health coverage can be defined as a coherent set of mechanisms or instruments for pooling and managing funds to enable the collective assumption of expenses linked to people's access to health care and services. These mechanisms include...
DOCUMENT | 06 Oct 2018
DIAGNOSTIC STUDY OF EXISTING SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS AND IDENTIFICATION OF POSSIBLE AREAS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SOCIAL PROTECTION BASE IN CAMEROON
Cameroon
In combination with specific measures to promote employment, the Strategy for Growth and Employment (2010-2020), adopted by the Government of Cameroon, includes human development among the key factors supporting economic growth. To gradually enhance human capital, the...
NEWS | 20 Sep 2018
What get’s measured get’s done: Malawi releases National Health Indicators Handbook for Monitoring Health Sector Performance
Malawi
As part of the 2017-2022 Health Sector Strategic Plan II (HSSP II) towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Malawi released an updated set of National Health Indicators and accompanying targets. hese indicators support monitoring for the Ministry of Health and...
NEWS | 20 Sep 2018
Status Quo: Decentralization of public health service provision
Malawi
The Decentralization programme has been going on in Malawi for 20 years now. Indeed a lot has happened considering that the first phase in the late 1990s was for laying the ground works relating to addressing capacity gaps and this was followed by the second phase...