{"id":987523386,"date":"2020-06-08T03:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T02:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/financement-de-la-sante-et-la-riposte-contre-covid-19-au-benin\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:45:44","slug":"financement-de-la-sante-et-la-riposte-contre-covid-19-au-benin","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/financement-de-la-sante-et-la-riposte-contre-covid-19-au-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Financement de la sant\u00e9 et la riposte contre COVID-19 au Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Efficient use of mobilized resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Efforts have been made to ensure rationalized use of resources in several ways.&nbsp; Pooling of resources has been implemented through the creation of pool funds in several countries. For example in Comoros where a single account has been opened to receive contributions from various partners. Nigeria and Kenya have both created a COVID-19 relief fund. In Togo, a special account has been created under the single signature of the General Treasurer of the State where funds will be pooled coupled with flexible measures to ensure rapid release. In <u>Benin<\/u>, transparent and participatory processes have been instituted through consultative platforms where resource mobilization and allocations decisions are made like the case.<\/p>\n<p>These financial measures have been coupled with additional measures to ensure removal of financial barriers to accessing care. In all the 23 countries all COVID-19 related services are provided free of charge. In some countries, this aligns with free provision of public services in public facilities while in some others, special exemptions for COVID-19 services have been instituted (Chad, <u>Benin<\/u>, Rwanda). Some countries have extended the free provision of services to cover quarantine costs (Comoros) while in some such costs are born by the individuals (Uganda).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find the published article under this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjgh\/2020\/04\/23\/domestic-health-financing-for-covid-19-response-in-africa\/\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efficient use of mobilized resources Efforts have been made to ensure rationalized use of resources in several ways.&nbsp; Pooling of resources has been implemented through the creation of pool funds in several countries. For example in Comoros where a single account has been opened to receive contributions from various partners. Nigeria and Kenya have both&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,129,131,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987523386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987523386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987523386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987523386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987523386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987523386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}