As P4H Country Focal Person (CFP) for Kuwait, Henrik Axelson will provide support to the government and development partners in carrying out a health financing assessment using the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), establishing a Health Economics and Financing...

Healthcare’s share of national budget in Iran surges twofold
The proposed budget in Iran amounted to about 24.357 quadrillion rials (about $580 billion), with a 20-percent rise from the current year’s budget. The health system accounts for approximately 17 percent of the total public budget. Over 90 percent of the health...

First mission to Kuwait – Debriefing to Ministry of Health Kuwait
Background The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Kuwait has requested the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide support to strengthening its capacity to use health economics and financing tools and approaches to inform the design, planning, implementation, and...

Meet Henrik Axelson, our new P4H CFP working in Kuwait!
Henrik Axelson is an independent consultant based in Cairo and originally from Sweden. He is a health economist and health financing practitioner with more than 20 years of experience of providing technical assistance and policy advice to governments of low and...

Tajikistan’s Government approved the Strategy for Population Health Protection until 2030
The Strategy for Population Health Protection until 2030 was approved by Decree No. 414 of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on September 30, 2021. This strategy defines direction of reforms in the healthcare system and provides ways for further development...

Tajikistan Aims to Build Stronger Health System, with Support from the World Bank
World Bank reported that the Government of Tajikistan launched the development of an investment plan to boost the health care system, at an event, which was attended by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health and Social Protection,...
Financing health care in the WHO South-East Asia Region: Time for a reset
Authors: Ajay Tandon, Valeria Oliveira Cruz , Aarushi Bhatnagar, Hui Wang, Trina Haque, and Manoj Jhalani Year: 2021 This paper focuses on the economic impact of COVID-19 on health financing in countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region....

The budget of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Korea for 2022
The total budget of the Ministry of Health and Welfare for 2022 is confirmed at 97.47 trillion won(over US$ 100 Billion), accounting for 16% of the entire government budget. It is an increase of 7.90 trillion won (8.8%) from the 2021 budget (89.57 trillion won). The...
Côte d’Ivoire: ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT (APR) FOR YEAR 2020
Côte d’Ivoire: MSHP BUDGET 2020 TO 2022

Sierra Leone to increase domestic health funding in 2022 by $5.9m as donor funds shrink
The government of Sierra Leone plans to increase domestic funding to the health sector by US$5.9 million in 2022 as the sector will be experiencing massive cuts in the area of budget support by bilateral partners. For the health sector, the country has increased...
Strategic purchasing for universal health coverage (UHC): examining the purchaser–provider relationship within a social health insurance scheme in Nigeria
Recognising how important purchasing is in social health insurance, this study critically assesses purchasing arrangements between Nigeria’s national health insurance scheme, health maintenance organisations and healthcare providers. It determines how the arrangements...

Russia approved state guarantees of free medical care with access to high-technology medical care
Program of state guarantees of free medical care provision to citizens for 2022, including plans for 2023 and 2024 (the Program) establishes a list of types, forms and conditions for the provision of free of charge medical care, according to the list of diseases and...
Examining health facility financing in Kenya in the context of devolution
The performance of public health facilities depends on purchasing arrangements, and mechanisms used to finance their operations. How public healthcare facilities are financed can affect health system goals in several ways. For example, the reliability of sources of...
Equity of local government health financing in Uganda
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...