Poor sanitation comes with a cost – it affects the affected individuals’ and populations’ health status and their productivity. Zambia, for example, loses 1.3 percent of GDP due to public health impacts of poor sanitation which results in child malnutrition, illness and premature death.
Cameroon has adopted the digital public good openIMIS to bring together different health financing schemes in one digital UHC platform. This is improving scheme efficiency, transparency and governance, and extending access to health services for those in need.
openIMIS powers Cameroon’s long-term vision for universal health coverage Mehr lesen
Informal sector workers often earn low and irregular wages, lack protection and face difficulties in accessing adequate basic services. As part of Senegal’s labour reforms, Germany is supporting a social protection pilot which could be extended to cover the whole informal sector
A first for Senegal, as social health insurance is extended to artisans Mehr lesen
Researchers and development practitioners reflect on learnings from comprehensive research, commissioned by the Indo-German Social Security Programme, examining the implementation and impact of the world’s largest health insurance scheme.
Research into the implementation of India’s PM-JAY generates wealth of learning Mehr lesen
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare brutal inequities in access to medical breakthroughs between Global North and South. A high-level panel debates how this can be changed.
WHS 2023: How can access to health innovations be made more equitable? Mehr lesen
What will it take to bridge the health gap for people with disabilities and provide access to assistive technology for all those who need it?
WHS 2023: Reimagining Universal Health Coverage to Leave No One Behind Mehr lesen
What is unique about a global programme’s technical support when it comes to setting up a sustainable health financing system in a low-income country? Zanzibar’s story, and how the GIZ global programme BACKUP Health facilitated it, is a case in point.
Zanzibar introduces Universal Health Insurance with co-ordinated P4H support Mehr lesen
High-level experts participated in a panel discussion at the Global Health Talk, where they debated recommendations for German policy-makers and parliamentarians on how to raise more funds for health at all levels: global, regional and national.
In an inspiring example of Germany’s feminist development policy in action, the Indo-German Universal Health Coverage (IGUHC) project is supporting the Government of India to extend social health insurance to the transgender community, upholding their rights to free, quality health services.
India’s transgender people gain access to social health insurance Mehr lesen
SORMAS (Surveillance Outbreak Response Management & Analysis System) is increasingly recognised as a digital system that can provide policy-relevant data and management support across the One Health domains – not only at local and national level, but potentially at regional and global levels too.
A critical juncture for SORMAS: from national to regional outlook and beyond Mehr lesen
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