In the fight against COVID-19, Cameroon refocussed the state budget in the year 2020. A special account called "Special National Solidarity Fund for the fight against the Coronavirus and its economic and social repercussions" was created under the yearly budget law as...
As a part of the ongoing reforms to modernize the Public Financial Management in Cameroon, the Ministry of Finance organized a conference on the execution of the State budget for the financial year 2021. The objective was to examine the problems that pose bottlenecks...
The Ministry of Health in 2019 developed a transition table between the program budget and the strategic axes of National Health Development Plan to ensure that heath sector resources are oriented on priority activities and facilitate the monitoring of key indicators....
From July 1, Belarus canceled COVID-19 related allowances (additional payments) for doctors and nurses working with COVID-19 positive patients, but introduced new permanent bonuses, which are tied to a percentage of the salary, depending on the complexity and...
This article assesses the impact of the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics and debt dynamics on health, HIV and pandemic preparedness and response-related financing in developing countries. Using a novel dataset, the study does a cross-national systematic analysis of all data...
For the first time in history, Kazakhstan is adopting a law on medical malpractice insurance. The Minister of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Azhar Giniyat, presented the draft law to the lower chamber of Parliament - Mazhilis. This law was developed...
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev approved the implementation of the second stage of the project to modernize oncological hospitals with the help from Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in 2022-2026. The cost of the project is about $122 million, including: the...
Egypt's comprehensive universal health insurance law (2018) has been accompanied by a number of decisive steps by the country's government to make it effective. It was followed by the launch of a package of health reforms to expedite the provision of service to the...
The Zimbabwe 2022 public expenditure review (PER) for health examines the recent evolution of public health expenditures in Zimbabwe and assesses opportunities for improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. PER is important as it helps to uncover gaps in...
Zimbabwe just finalised conduced an expenditure review for health and its report has been posted on its country page. The report is about 131 pages long and outlines the progress that the country has made in improving efficiency, effectiveness, and equity in...
On August 14, 2022, WHO-Europe published a technical note titled "Health financing in Ukraine: resilience in the context of war". This technical note provides tailored advice on further adjustments in health financing policy in the context of war based on principles...
In this study, the authors examine the question of whether and how PBF programs in sub-Saharan Africa influence strategic purchasing more broadly within the country’s health financing arrangements. Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have implemented...
In 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic illustrated like nothing else in recent history the importance of building resilient health systems. The diversion of health system resources to address COVID-19 care led to a disruption of essential health services which affected...
This assessment evaluates the financial and institutional sustainability of health financing in Papua New Guinea.
On April 15, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov took part in the opening ceremony of a 400-bed multidisciplinary hospital in the city of Turkmenbashi, located in the western part of the country in Balkan velayat (the name of the region). The new...
