Seminar 2009

"Universal coverage, beyond the numbers"
Access for all to quality health services

26 November 2009
Espace Jacqmotte, Belgian Technical Cooperation
Hoogstraat 147, rue Haute
1000 Brussels

Presentations

Morning presentations

• Designing health financing systems for universal coverage - Inke Mathauer WHO
• Transformative Social Protection - Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
• Table - Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
• Projet Santé Dar Naïm - Abdoulaye Samba Bâ
• ITM-series "Studies in Health Services Organisation & Policy: Une expérience de protection sociale en santé pour les plus démunis: le fonds d’indigence de Dar-Naïm en Mauritanie"  
• The Holy Grail of Universal Coverage - Fréderique Ponsar, Médecins sans Frontières
  

Afternoon presentations

• Couverture universelle et protection sociale transformative : atouts et limites des expériences mutualistes - Bénédicte Fonteneau
• Prosis Julio Pedrosa
• Removing user fee in SSA - David Hercot
• Synthesis Bart Criel
• The role of Europe in promoting universal coverage - Bart Verstraeten, World Solidarity
• "More money for health, and more health for the money report", Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, a personal reading by Wim Van Damme

Programme

Morning

Moderator: Bénédicte Fonteneau, HIVA Leuven, Masmut, Belgium

• 8.15 a.m. Registration
  

• 9 a.m. Welcome Address, Carl Michiels, Director Belgian Technical Cooperation, and Peter Moors, Director General,, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Belgium
• 9.15 a.m. Keynote: Universal coverage, the ultimate goal, Inke Mathauer, WHO, Geneva
• 9.45 a.m. Keynote: Transformative Social Protection, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Institute for Development Studies, Sussex, UK
• 10.15 a.m. Discussion
  

• 10.45 a.m. Coffee break
  

• 11.15 a.m. L'expérience de la mutuelle communautaire de santé de Dar Naïm à Nouakchott, Abdoulaye Samba Bâ, Caritas, Mauretania
• 11.35 a.m. The Holy Grail of Universal Coverage: significant progress through abolition of user fees for all care for children and pregnant women in Kangaba, Mali, Fréderique Ponsar, Médecins sans Frontières, Belgium
• 11.55 a.m. Discussion
  
• 00.15 p.m. Lunch
  

Afternoon

Moderator: Martine Vandermeulen, Hera-Belgium

• 1.30 p.m. Experiences with mutualities and micro insurance, speaker to be confirmed, Masmut, Belgium
• 1.50 p.m. Towards integrated health insurance in Peru, Julio Pedroza, Belgian Technical Cooperation, Peru
• 2.10 p.m. Discussion
  
• 2.30 p.m. Coffee Break
  

• 3.00 p.m. The abolishment of user fees, speaker to be confirmed, Unicef
• 3.20 p.m. The role of Europe in promoting universal coverage, Bart Verstraeten, Wereldsolidariteit-Social Alert, Belgium
• 3.40 p.m. Innovative health financing, Wim Van Damme, Gorik Ooms, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
• 4.00 p.m. Discussion

Synthesis and conclusion

• 4.20 p.m. Synthesis, Reporters: Bart Criel, Werner Soors, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
• 4.30 p.m. Concluding plenary discussion
• 5.00 p.m. Follow up of the seminar and closure, Karel Gyselinck, BTC, chair of Be-cause health
  

• 5.10 p.m. Reception

Background document

• Universal coverage, beyond the numbers

Other background documents

• All for universal health coverage - The Lancet

• Wanted: increased health coverage - MSF Liberia

• Full prescription for fighting malaria. Better malaria treatment for more people, MSF's experience
• Prescription complète. Un meilleur traitement contre le paludisme pour plus de patients, l’expérience de MSF

• Improving access to effective malaria treatment in Mali - MSF
• Améliorer l’accès aux traitements efficaces contre le paludisme au Mali - MSF

• No cash, no care. How 'user fees' endanger health
• Sans argent, pas de soins !L'impact des soins payant sur la santé
• Removing user fees in the Health Sector in Low-Income Countries - UNICEF
• Your Money or Your Life
• Health Insurance in Low Income Countries
  
  
• The World Health Report 2008 - Chapter 2
  
  
• Transformative social protection - Stephen Devereux and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler 
   
• Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries
• Réduire les barrières financières aux soins obstétricaux dans les pays à faibles ressources
   
• Taskforce report Innovative International Financing for Health Systems
• Anna Marriott, Oxfam GB: Where 'successful health insurance' is neither successful nor in fact health insurance

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