In Uganda, just like most low and middle-income countries, most of the health spending is at the local government (subnational) level. To achieve universal health coverage, efforts to increase health spending need to consider the efficiency and effectiveness of...
New documents on drivers of outpatient care costs incurred by households and health facility financing in Kenya in the context of devolution have been uploaded to the documents section of the Kenya country page. The documents can be downloaded from...
With the support of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the World Bank organized a round table titled “Health insurance in Tajikistan”. The event was held in capital city Dushanbe on November 1, 2021, as...
Overview This Process Guide lays out a sequenced set of analytics and actions to support reorienting budgetary arrangements to facilitate the ability of national governments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by delivering therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccine...
To curb COVID-19 spending, the Australian Government stops providing free rapid antigen testing (RAT). However, tests are still freely provided for health reasons and partly subsidized for those who are considered close contacts. While discounted RAT for concession...
The problems faced by referral hospitals in Burkina Faso have much more to do with the budget that the State allocates to the field. This is well below the 15% commitment contained in the 2001 Abuja Declaration. To boost health funding, African states agreed a joint...
CIFOEB is the center for information, training and study on budgeting. The national budget, adopted on December 16 by the National Assembly, has been put under the microscope by this center, which gives its reading. For Executive Director Youssouf Ouattara, there are...
The draft 2022 budget for the Ministry of Health and Social Action is set at 270,110,604,494 F CFA in commitment authorizations (AE) and 235,996,717,777 F CFA in payment credits (CP). Unlike 2021, when the budget was 216 billion CFA francs, it has been revised upwards...
"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...
Since 2000, health budget in Bhutan has been decreasing and fluctuating between 3.55-5 percent of GDP. Now the Government of Bhutan aims to address this challenge to stabilize health budget relative to GDP. To read more, please click. Source: Kuensel Online...
This document gives an overview of the health care transformation envisioned in Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030”, spelling out the underlying national goals. Led by the Ministry of Health and developed in close collaboration with the National Transformation Program, it...
From November 10 to 12, 2021, some forty national players involved in health financing and social protection in health in Burundi met in the political capital Gitéga. The meeting was divided into two parts: firstly, data consolidation and analysis of strengths and...
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...
Developing systematic decision-making processes for health that are fair and transparent is an important step towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, having such decision-making processes alone is not enough. These processes should have clear...
A new study by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recommended that developing countries invest roughly US$1.2 trillion – on average 3.8 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP), to guarantee at least basic income security and access to essential...
