The project manager in the health division of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) carried out a mission to evaluate PASST2 activities and prepare a PASST3 in Chad from 31.01 to 12.02.2022. During her stay, she met with those involved in implementing PASST2...
As the government in Egypt continues to vaccinate its population against COVID-19, plans to allow private healthcare companies to sell vaccinations are underway. During a meeting of the House of Representatives Complaints and Suggestions Committee on Monday,...
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have a critical role in advocating for adequate domestic financing and resource mobilisation in Liberia. One such CSO is the Public Health Initiative Liberia (PHIL), a community health focus organization working to promote and...
In Singapore, the Integrated Shield Plan (IP) is optional for health coverage provided by private insurance companies. Seven insurers providing IPs have agreed to extend their coverage to hospitalization from COVID-19 vaccine complications till Dec 31, 2022. ...
In October, 2021 the Lagos state government approved the sum of N6000 (14.4 USD) for the administration of vaccines against coronavirus infection at private health facilities in the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said that the money would allow the private...
Several development partners including WHO, UNHCR, CDC, SIDA, USAID among others met with the Uganda parliamentary committee on health in November 2021 where they discussed issues affecting the county’s health sector. Among the issues that were discussed, the...
On Thursday, January 12th the P4H Alignment Community of Practice will gather for its first technical webinar on “Understanding how global health funds work in different countries/Comprendre le fonctionnement des fonds de santé mondiaux dans différents pays”....
"Between 2018 and 2020, the Sustainable Financing Initiative focused on three key areas in Cambodia: Public Financial Management, Private Sector Engagement, and Financial Protection. As a result of this initiative, the country is well placed to achieve Universal...
This article focuses on the factors that have promoted transferring the responsibility of providing healthcare from the government to market forces. This has allowed the private sector to grow in Saudi Arabia. It also discusses other factors that contributed to policy...
Here are a group of five documents on the sustainable financing of healthcare in Saudi Arabia, prospects of a national health insurance system to extend the scope of health coverage and the country’s healthcare transformation strategy. Two research papers look at the...
Saudi Arabia has set out plans to invest $66 billion in healthcare infrastructure and boost the private sector participation by 2030. The Kingdom plans to boost private sector participation from 40% to 65%. This comes after the Saudi Council of Cooperative...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s top priorities in the healthcare sector are enhancing the role of the private sector through privatisation of government healthcare services, increasing public-private participation (PPP) healthcare delivery models, scaling up education...
The Saudi Ministry of Health aspires to increase the private sector’s participation in the sector from to 35 percent by 2030 from 25 percent. The ministry is working with partners in the private sector and across government to implement a package of initiatives...
Two documents have been uploaded in the Qatar Country page. One is on the 2015 pricing for the national health insurance scheme at the time in Qatar, called ‘Seha’. The second one is an assessment of the country’s improving health financing and social health...
The Health Vision 2050 document lays out the Omani vision for its health system to be in future. It consists of, among other things, a chapter on sustainable health system financing that focuses on improving equity and ensuring financial protection for all. The...
