Listen Ministry of Health The Ministry of Health is charged with formulation and implementation of health policy, sanitation policy, preventive and promotive health services, HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) programmes, treatment and management, health education, family planning, food and food handling, and health inspections. Its vision is to have ‘a healthy, productive and globally […]
Listen Healthcare financing gaps: Many shortfalls exist in the provision of UHC in Kenya. Apart from the government coming up with innovative ways to increase the national health budget, it can also tap into other sources of funding for the health sector in order to bridge these gaps. The government can introduce special taxes such […]
Listen Provision of UHC is part of the Kenya’s efforts to attain the highest standard of the desired status of health. It aims at ensuring all Kenyans quality, promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitation health services without suffering financial hardship. UHC lowers the healthcare cost in the economy; forces doctors to offer the same standards of […]
Listen Health infrastructure is critically important in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). According to the Ministry of Health, health infrastructure is defined as ‘all the physical infrastructure, inpatient beds, equipment, transport and technology (including ICT) required for effective delivery of services at the National Government and County Government level.’ The World Health Organisation (WHO) on […]
Listen Nyeri County It registered 716,947 people under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the government initiative aimed at providing improved and cost-effective healthcare. Through a concerted and collaborative approach, the county has ensured that 349,901 households, with 86.2 percent of its population, are under the programme. According to the Nyeri County Executive Committee Member for […]
Listen Healthcare financing gaps: Financing gaps exist in the provision of UHC in Kenya. Apart from the government coming up with innovative ways to increase the national health budget, it can also tap into other sources of funding to bridge these gaps. The government can introduce specials taxes such are Sin Tax (on alcohol and […]
Listen Provision of UHC is part of the country’s efforts to attain the highest standard of the desired status of health. It aims at ensuring all Kenyans quality, promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services without suffering financial hardship. Some of the benefits of UHC are: it lowers the healthcare cost in the economy; forces […]
Listen Elimination of user fees in primary healthcare facilities is one of the key policy considerations to address the critical issue of equity access to healthcare by the poor and vulnerable groups. According to Maina and Kirigia (2015), user fees introduced in many LMICs, Kenya included, in the 1980s have failed to achieve the objective […]
Listen Policy, legal and strategic grounding Through the Kenya Health Policy 2014-2030, Kenya Health Sector Strategic Investment Plan 2013-2017, and Kenya National eHealth Policy 2016-2030, the Government is committed to putting in place strategic interventions aimed at accelerating, achieving and maintaining UHC through increased and diversified financing options. It is also worth noting that UHC […]
Listen Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has gained traction globally, regionally and nationally in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) number 3, which aims to ensure ‘everyone has health coverage and access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines’ by 2030 (UNDP, 2015). The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines UHC as a health system […]