For children under 5, PECIME basket on the entire pyramid 3 appeals per year on average for children under 5 years of age 15 billion spent on children under 5 in 2017, 16 billion in 2018. Cost of Caesarean section: 2.2 billion in 2018 And even more so in the report...

SUPPLEMENT LAUNCH: Transforming health systems financing in Lower Mekong: making sure the poor are not left behind
By Augustine Asante, Ir Por, Bart Jacobs and Virginia Wiseman Universal health coverage (UHC) appears to be on everybody’s agenda these days, especially low- and middle- income countries (LIMCs). But achieving UHC goes beyond having it on one’s agenda; it requires,...
CR of the meeting of experts on gratuity in Niger -/10/2019
Participants, findings, recommendations and next steps for overhauling the free program in Niger.

Experts meet to overhaul Niger’s free healthcare system
The meeting of experts to overhaul Niger's free healthcare system was held today, Thursday, October 17, 2019, as planned. The experts come from Lasdel (political anthropology research center), the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Finance (Budget &...
User Fees and Access to HIV/AIDS Services in Cameroon
Paper on User Fees in Cameroon / UNAIDS , August 2019
Evaluation of the I3S free-of-charge project
In May 2013, France launched the Initiative Solidarité Santé Sahel1 (I3S) aimed at facilitating financial access to healthcare for children in Sahelian countries by supporting politically committed countries in setting up solidarity-based healthcare access systems. Of...
Free-of-charge mechanisms in Niger
This report gives an account of free healthcare in Niger (or exemption from payment for healthcare services). It does not go into detail about free travel for pregnant women and children under 5, which is the subject of another report, but describes all the other free...
Study on free healthcare for children under 5 and pregnant women in Niger
Niger's Ministry of Health has commissioned a WHO study "to determine the benefits of free health care and other insurance mechanisms with a view to setting up Universal Health Coverage in Niger". The ToR for the study stipulates that it will be carried out by a...
Niger Unicef free study 2018
EVALUATION OF THE NIGER-UNICEF 2014-2018 COOPERATION PROGRAM AS PART OF THE FREE HEALTHCARE POLICY IN NIGER
Costing of Health Insurance Premium Collection in Cambodia’s Informal Sector: A case study of community-based health insurance
To inform decision making about premium collection to expand social health protection in Cambodia, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project undertook a case study of a CBHI scheme to assess the cost of premium...
Minutes of a meeting between Ministries and PTFs on the progress of UHIP and free healthcare in Burkina Faso
On September 19, 2019, starting at 10 a.m., a working meeting was held in the conference room of the Ministry of the Civil Service, Labor and Social Protection on the financing of Universal Health Coverage (CSU) in Burkina Faso. This meeting is the first in a series...
Meeting between Ministries and PTFs on the progress of UHIP in Burkina Faso
On September 19, 2019, starting at 10 a.m., a working meeting was held in the conference room of the Ministry of the Civil Service, Labor and Social Protection on the financing of Universal Health Coverage (CSU) in Burkina Faso. This meeting is the first in a series...

Healthcare remains a challenge for older people in Cambodia
The Phnom Penh Post, 1 Oct 2019: " The government and the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation are disseminating the National Strategic Plan for the Elderly 2017-2023 to promote and improve the wellbeing of Cambodia’s senior citizens. Ministry...

Phnom Penh Post: Hun Sen’s ambitious plan for migrant benefits endorsed
Phnom Penh Post, 17 Sep 2019: " Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ambitious roadmap to extend social security benefits to migrant workers was endorsed at the 3rd Ministerial Conference on Labour Cooperation in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (CLMTV) in Siem Reap...
Couverture Maladie Universelle: 1,764,364 out of 4 million vulnerable people identified by the end of June 2019
See article https://news.abidjan.net/h/661247.html