Measures are being taken by the government to facilitate access to care for patients. The aim is to eliminate the disease by the end of 2030. How are these measures perceived by the local population, and what is their assessment of the measures put in place ? A...
The WHO European Centre for PHC in Almaty, Kazakhstan is hosting an expert discussion on COVID-19-related challenges for health systems and the foundational role of primary health care in addressing them. The next "Let's Talk Primary Health Care" event will be held...
Strengthening and supporting community health mutuals means This is one of the challenges facing Andre Demba Wade, the newly appointed President of the Union nationale des mutuelles de santé communautaire du Sénégal. He was chosen at the end of a renewal general...
The Guera health delegation organized a capacity-building workshop for 335 health workers in Mongo from February 22 to 26, 2021, in partnership with the GAVI Alliance. Representing the Governor and launching the activities of this training course, the Guera provincial...
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The Mozambican Ministry of Health has presented the draft of the Community Health strategy to development partners. Mozambique counts now with 6.790 Community Health workers, called APE (Agentes Polivalentes Elementares), who perform essential preventive health work...
Blanchet K, Alwan A, Antoine C, et al. Protecting essential health services in low-income and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e003675. https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/10/e003675 ->...
<Pulse survey on continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic> (WHO - Interim report, 27 August 2020) https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-EHS_continuity-survey-2020.1 “WHO conducted a key informant survey among ministry...
The Primary Health Care Strengthening Program (PHCSP) aims at contributing to the implementation of the Investment Case (IC) for Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH+N). The Program financing was 253 M$ in 2019...
Nepal has made significant progress in improving drug availability in districts. Pukar Malla, an executive coach at the Nepal Leadership Academy, explains how L4UHC helped create a safe space to innovate, and the importance of starting small and thinking big. Nepal...
Two major initiatives for the health sector where announced as part of Ayushman Bharat: 1. Health and Wellness Centre Scheme 2. National Health Protection Scheme covering Hospital Care for poor and vulnerable families (Announcement Posted On: 01 FEB 2018 1:31PM by PIB...
on August 13th the governing board of National Health Authority (NHA), chaired by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, approved the proposal to integrate existing health schemes of the central ministries with the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri...
China is in the process of integrating the new cooperative medical scheme (NCMS) and the urban residents’ basic medical insurance system (URBMI) into the urban and rural residents’ basic medical insurance system (URRBMI). However, how to integrate the financing...
Following the post-Soviet transition period, public spending on health dropped sharply, as did health care use rates. Health care use rates declined in part because formal and informal out-of-pocket expenditures had to compensate for the decrease in public spending....
