The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO and pause in foreign aid present a dual challenge and opportunity for African nations to transition from donor-dependency to self-reliance in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). By leveraging regional cooperation, local...
This study examines how development partners influence domestic health financing in Senegal, which is essential for achieving UHC. Researchers identified four main mechanisms of influence: setting standards, lobbying, providing policy advice, and offering financing....
The resources necessary for the National Health Fund to take on both the prevention and treatment of obesity would represent 2.3% of its annual budget.The author indicates that the National Health Fund (FONASA) can assume both the prevention of obesity and its...
The National Mental Health Program (NMHP), officially launched on June 27, 2024, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Lebanon and with the support of the French Development Agency (AFD), the National Mental Health Strategy for the period...
On Thursday October 31 in Abidjan, the Association de soutien à l'autopromotion sanitaire urbaine (ASAPSU), in collaboration with the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) and GAVI, organized a co-creation workshop on the study of health and vaccination financing in...
Against a backdrop of heightened financial market volatility and rising central bank interest rates, Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) has continued its program of social security issues. Its annual report details the initiatives taken to refinance...
The report highlights strengths and weaknesses in Jammu and Kashmir’s current health financing arrangements, assessed against the desirable attributes of a health financing system based on global evidence. Based on the findings, the report suggests several policy...
On May 24, 2024, the National Transition Council adopted two financing agreements for the Health Security Program in West and Central Africa. The agreements had been signed in January between the Republic of Guinea and the International Bank for Reconstruction and...
In this article, researchers analyze the impact of the 2023 Sudanese conflict on the country’s fragile health financing system through interviews with key policymakers. Findings reveal that while the conflict has exacerbated resource allocation challenges,...
Relevant results are presented for the years 2020 and 2021. Comparisons are made with the expenditure series available since 2005, in particular with the year 2019 as it is the year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 the variation of total health expenditure in...
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) called on the countries of the region not to postpone investments in health. The publication highlights the...
It analyzes both the expenditure and the output that this expenditure generates, using official data at the health facility level. The study is complemented by an application that allows the policy maker to query the database, identify improvements in resource...
This Amnesty International report critically examines Somalia's fragile healthcare system, highlighting the severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the urgent need for health financing reform. It underscores how decades of conflict and limited resources have left...
Drugs for the treatment of head and neck, ovarian and cervical cancer will be included in the free coverage of the National Resources Fund.The incorporation of new drugs to the benefits of the National Resources Fund was announced. The authorities of the Ministry of...
The Georgian government is introducing co-payments in the universal health coverage system to allow patient choice and flexibly. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said patients who could not choose a preferred provider or certain comfort level during medical care would...
