Friday, May 14, 2021 saw the latest meeting of Health TFPs in Côte d'Ivoire with the following agenda. The Financing TWG was described (see ppt). 1.Main theme: Review of 2020 and Outlook for 2021 - GSS Technical Secretariat (10 minutes) - GTT - Health...
Функционирование и перспективы ТРГ по финансированию здравоохранения и Кот-д’Ивуара
В пятницу 14 мая 2021 года состоялось последнее заседание ТФП по здравоохранению в Кот-д'Ивуаре со следующей повесткой дня. Было рассказано о работе ТРГ по финансированию (см. ppt). 1.Основная тема: Итоги 2020 года и перспективы на 2021 год - Технический...
The National Health Security Office accelerates payments to the healthcare sector amid rising COVID 19 Cases
The Covid 19 outbreak continues to strain healthcare providers physically and financially and extra work always comes with extra costs. The National Health Security Office (NHSO) is trying to adjust its financial reimbursement system to better cope with the...
Public-Private Sector partnership in Philippines leads to immunization programme success
On April 30, The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) organized a Vaccine Summit that discussed the need to prepare for the next pandemic, particularly in the areas of vaccine security and...
Financial accessibility issues to COVID treatments noted in Bangladesh
A recent study conducted by the Health Economics Unit of the Bangladesh Ministry of Health highlights cost differences between treatments of COVID patients in public versus private facilities. For example, while the average cost of ICU treatment in the public sector...
MUGEF-CI: the State of Côte d’Ivoire called upon to pay its share of contributions
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mutuelle générale des fonctionnaires et agents de l'Etat de Côte d'Ivoire (MUGEF-CI), Kouamé Mesmin Comoé, calls on on Wednesday April 14, 2021, the State to pay the employer's share. "The employer's share amounts to...
Public–private partnerships for universal health coverage? The future of “free health” in Sri Lanka
With less than 5% spending ion health, the Sri Lankan Government runs public hospitals that offer ‘free’ healthcare on a walk-in basis with no extra cost. While this is an achievement of no ordinary means and has impressive geographical reach even though...
Workshop to present the results of the study: “Economie politique de la CSU au Burkina Faso: points de vue des parties prenantes et priorités de recherche”.
Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) in collaboration with Queen Margaret University (Great Britain) conducted a study to analyze the place and challenges of using political economy analysis in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies and practices, as...
Семинар, посвященный представлению результатов исследования: “Политическая экономика CSU в Буркина-Фасо: точки зрения партий и приоритеты исследований”.
Компания Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) в сотрудничестве с Университетом Королевы Маргарет (Великобритания) провела исследование с целью анализа места и проблем использования политэкономического анализа в политике и практике универсального...
Workshop to present the results of the study: “Economie politique de la CSU au Burkina Faso: points de vue des parties prenantes et priorités de recherche”.
Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) in collaboration with Queen Margaret University (Great Britain) conducted a study to analyze the place and challenges of using political economy analysis in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies and practices, as...
Millions of Australians facing another private health insurance price hike
Almost 14 million Australians with private health insurance will face a price hike come April 1 – the second in just six months. The federal government will also decrease its rebate slightly from 25.059 per cent for under 65s on the base tier...
Health Financing in Digital Health in Australia: 2021
The Pandemic has forced governments to rethink their systems of healthcare delivery and digital has been one way to go to ensure maximum coverage with minimum physical interaction. For a developed economy like Australia, financing research and development of digital...
Tobacco tax: low taxation denounced by an NGO in Côte d’Ivoire
The Club universitaire Unesco pour la lutte contre la drogue et autres pandémies (Clucod) crie haro sur la taxe sur la consommation du tabac at a press conference. The Ivorian NGO held a press conference in February to denounce the low taxation in force in Côte...
253 billion CFA francs for economic and social development: the World Bank and Burkina Faso sign an agreement
Signing of three financing agreements on Thursday January 21 in Ouagadougou. Worth a total of 460 million USD, or around 253 billion CFA francs, this grant will be used to implement the emergency project for territorial development and resilience. project to...
France: Fareva, the first healthcare company financed by insurers’ stimulus funds
"Since the beginning of the health crisis, the government has been fighting with insurers to get them to help support the French economy (...) According to the closing announced on December 14, the three healthcare funds have been endowed with a total of 780 million...