In many countries, instability is undermining the state's ability to exercise its sovereign functions and provide basic services to its population, to the point of undermining its legitimacy. These "fragile" situations raise major challenges for progress towards...
The Minister of the Interior and Decentralization, Mr Hamadou Adamou Souley, presided over the official launch of the Niger-Chad Emergency Development Program (PDU) in Niamey on the morning of January 26. The aim of the program is to help improve living conditions and...
This study aims to examine inequality and determinants associated with Iraq’s progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) targets. The authors used nationally representative population-based household surveys in Iraq conducted between 2000 and 2018. The analysis...
Here’s presenting a research paper on the factors that influence financial risk protection and health services as barriers to universal health coverage for vulnerable families in Iraq. Another research article lists out the health financing challenges that Iraq faced...
Three new documents have been uploaded on the across Africa regional page. All three documents focus on assessing the financing mechanisms that have been put in place in the Southern Africa Development Community and sub-Saharan African countries in...
Three new documents on NHIS have recently been uploaded to the documents section of the Nigeria country page. One peer reviewed article examining the purchaser-provider relationship within a conical health insurance scheme which was published in 2018. The other looks...
A new document has been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Sierra Leone country page. The document assesses the determinants of willingness among the people to pay a premium for the social health insurance. The document can be...
In 2014, the government of Nigeria implemented the basic health care provision fund (BHCPF) with the aim of providing adequate care and services at the primary health care (PHC) level, mostly for the vulnerable population, so as to reduce out-of-pocket expenses....
An estimated 1.48 million people in Kenya are pushed into poverty every year because of out-of-pocket (OOP) and outpatient health expenses. Kenyans from poor households are the most vulnerable and experience economic hardship each time an OOP payment is necessary....
In this study, the researchers monitor the progress that Uganda has made in ensuring financial risk protection to attain universal health coverage (UHC) as a signatory to the sustainable development goals. Monitoring progress towards UHC requires tracking of progress...
In this article, the researchers analyse the Ugandan experience of health financing reforms with a specific focus on financial protection. After almost 20 years of abolishing user-fees to improve accessibility to health services for the population, the incidence of...
The government of Kenya announced that it is still on track to attaining UHC by 2030. During the state address in Dec, 2021, president Kenyatta urged the senate to expedite the consideration of the 2021 national hospital insurance fund (amendments) bill which was...
New documents on health financing and financial risk protection have been uploaded to the documents section of the Uganda country page. The documents can be downloaded from the related documents link below
Shirin Amonzoda, PhD, Minister of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population of Tajikistan, initiated and held a congress on December 16, 2021 in Dushanbe, dedicated to cooperation of the Ministry with donors and partners. Dr Amonzoda stressed that the...
Press service of Azerbaijan’s President reported that on December 20, 2021, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a number of decrees to increase students’ stipends, social benefits and pensions. These changes aimed at improving social protection...
