Pakistan has made great strides in health coverage, offering valuable in-patient cover to some of the most vulnerable members of society through the Sehat Sahulat Program, an initiative of the federal government and the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2018, an...
Extreme poverty, premature mortality, and ill-health are increasingly concentrated in fragile and conflict settings. There are different reasons for fragility, but they are often characterized by deficits in key government capacities, with clear implications for...
On May 1, bearing in mind the true spirit of labour, 35 committed people including partners of the P4HC+ network, H-EQIP mid-term review team and other guests headed to the World Bank office for the second thematic meeting of 2019. These include As usual the host...
"In absolute terms, Kenya’s national and county governments are allocating more funds to the health sector, thereby increasing the public budgetary resources available. However, the combined total remains below the Abuja targets, to which the Kenya government has...
Welcome to the latest issue of 'Stories from the field', all about how countries are working to achieve universal health coverage. In Issue 6 we share Samoa's approach to tackling the problem of non-communicable diseases through a primary health care approach. We...
Details of the 4-day national dialogue, including 3 days of work and 1 day of high-level political exchanges.
Welcome to your second issue of stories from the field. In this issue, you can read how Micronesia's remote populations have better access to integrated care, and about Libya's fresh vision and progress to improve its medicines supply chain. If you are very...
This is the proposal from the Health Financing Collaborative facilitated by the P4H Network to operationalise and contribute to the success of the Accelerator. (April 2019)
The Cambodian NCD Alliance was officially launched on 28 March 2019 in Phnom Penh. The launch event was organised by the four founding members – GIZ, Louvain Coopération, WHO and MoPoTsyo, with financial support from P4H and GIZ. The event was a significant...
This event is supported by WHO. Related document: Discussion Paper for 2nd Cambodia UHC Forum Event Time : 08 Apr 2019 6:00 am to 09 Apr 2019 2:00 pmTimezone: UTC+07:00Event is Conference : No
Mozambique is assessing the social and economic consequences of cyclone Idai, that hit the country on 14th and 15th March, 2019. Death toll has risen to 598 and 135.000 families are affected, of which 127.000 live in shelters and makeshift camps. Cholera outbreak has...
The Phnom Penh Post, 29 March 2019: At the network’s launch in Phnom Penh, attended by almost 100 officials from the Ministry of Health and international health organisations, and members of the community, a 2018 World Health Organisation (WHO) report was used to...
"In FY 2017/18, the health sector has been allocated TSh84.2 billion. This is a TSh33.2 billion increase on the previous year, equivalent to 65 per cent increase or 62 per cent increase accounting for inflation. Government spending on health as a percentage of the...
"The health sector was allocated Tanzanian Shillings (TSh) 2.22 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017/2018. This represents a 34 per cent nominal increase on FY 2016/2017 or a 28 percent increase once adjusting for inflation. The health budget accounts for 7 per cent of...
