Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 – Launch Event December 16th 2020
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is WHO’s standardized assessment of country health financing systems using a set of evidence-informed benchmarks, which are also referred to as desirable attributes. Each attribute represents one...
Global Spending on Health Report – Launch Event 9th December 2020
The report “Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm” is based on the newly updated Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). It is the 4th in a series of annual reports on global health spending that WHO has produced since 2017. The report...
Top 5 New Romanian health-tech initiatives developed in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic makes it more difficult to solve problems in hospitals. A solution is based on technology, and during this period it is more important than ever to increase the number of initiatives in the field of health-tech. The published information...
HEALTH FINANCING PROGRESS MATRIX 2.0 Accelerating progress to UHC – LAUNCH EVENT
Please join us next Wednesday 16 December from 14:30-15:30 CET for the launch of the Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 (HFPM). I would also like to convey my sincere wishes that this is the last event that WHO’s health financing team will organize as part of the...
Geneva Health Forum (GHF) 16th November 2020 Session
On 16th November 2020, the Geneva Health Forum held a session titled "Extending social health protection, promoting equity”. Details of the session: https://dev.ghf2020.org/session-2-5.php You can see also the link of the video; https://youtu.be/HHemhvmh2X0 ...
EU and African Union sign partnership to scale up preparedness for health emergencies
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched a new partnership initiative to strengthen the capacity of Africa CDC to prepare for and respond to public health threats in...
Cameroon: Stakeholders finetune govt Coronavirus response strategy
Stakeholders, partners and other actors involved in the fight against the COVID-19 have hailed government for the efficient plan put in place to fight against the pandemic. They hailed the response plan at the end of a three-day consultation meeting organized by the...
Myanmar established fund to purchase COVID-19 vaccines
The National-Level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 30-12-2020 formed a Fund Management Sub-committee on the Purchase of COVID-19 Vaccines. The sub-committee has opened the COVID-19 Vaccination Fund at...
Nigeria: Highlights of the Health Sector in 2020
In this article from This Day, a brief on Nigeria Health system reforms as per end of 2020: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/12/31/highlights-of-the-health-sector-in-2020/ "(...) While launching the revised implementation guidelines for the Basic Healthcare...
New BLOG: Lessons from Rapid Implementation: how the revamped system to purchase COVID services in Indonesia affected its hospitals
https://uat.p4h.world/en/blog-how-the-revamped-system-to-purchase-COVID-services-in-Indonesia
What is going on in Kazakhstan?
Recently, the Minister of the national economy of Kazakhstan Ruslan Dalenov presented the results of socio-economic development since the beginning of 2020. At the end of November, inflation was 7.3%, and the GDP decreased by 2.8%. Inflation, combined with the...
Republic of Korea’s COVID-19 preparedness and Response
World Bank's discussion paper, Nov 2020 devoted to Republic of Korea's COVID-19 preparedness and Response. It emphasizes that post-MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) legislative and regulatory reforms enhanced the public health preparedness and response system in...
Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm / Public launch event: 9 December 2020 – 15:00 – 16:30 CET
Public launch event - 9th December 2020 - 15:00 – 16:30 CET The report “Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm” to be released at this event is based on the newly updated Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). It is the 4th in a series of...
COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor, Republic of Korea
The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies published a report on the Health System Response Monitor (HSRM). It is designed to collect and organize up-to-date information on how countries are responding to the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19)...
MoH and partners finalize the Strategic Plan extension 2020-24
The Ministry of Health, development partners and civil society are finalizing the joint process to review and extend the Strategic Plan, which will cover the period 2020-24. The adaptations will be focused on areas that have experienced relevant advancements, such as...