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The Government of Kenya (GoK), has made a strong commitment to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by the year 2030.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Anchored in the Kenya Constitution, 2010, UHC is identified as one of the pillars that will enable Kenyans realize the benefits of being a middle-income country. Kenya now needs a policy framework for related financing reforms in order to facilitate the country\u2019s path to UHC. A draft health healthcare financing strategy has been developed and is currently going through internal review, in preparation for a national stakeholder engagement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This strong commitment to UHC requires a shared vision among the top leadership within MOH and the National Treasury to take hard policy decisions and strategic reforms. In order to provide decision makers with best practices\u00a0from high income countries around the afore mentioned\u00a0aspects the government requested a study tour to Germany and Estonia for selected leaders in the health financing reform process.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The P4H (WB, GIZ, KfW, WHO) supported study tour took place in October 2016 – see attached concept note for more detail.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A detailed study tour report with lessons learned for the Kenyan context shall be uploaded as soon as available.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n UHC Reforms Study Tour Schedule vsa 07 10 2016<\/a> UHC Study Tour Concept Note-Final-29092016<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Government of Kenya (GoK), has made a strong commitment to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by the year 2030.\u00a0 Anchored in the Kenya Constitution, 2010, UHC is identified as one of the pillars that will enable Kenyans realize the benefits of being a middle-income country. Kenya now needs a policy framework for related…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645730"}],"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\/1888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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