Update: 11.03.11 |
The detailed agenda |
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Monday 14 March 2011 |
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Pre-conference session: Training on Measuring Equity and Financial Protection in Health (AfHEA/World Bank/CESAG)
17:00 - 20:00 : Pre-registration |
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Tuesday 15 March 2011 |
09:00
10:00 |
Registration
Participant seating, Practical information
Reception of officials |
Plenary 1 |
10:00
12:00 |
Main conference hall: Teranga
Official opening ceremony |
12:00
12:30 |
BREAK / FAMILY PHOTO / POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
Parallel session 1 (Tuesday, 12:30 - 14:00) |
PS 01 / Room: Teranga
Towards universal coverage I |
PS 01/1 |
The Progressivity of the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme and the Implications for Achieving Universal Coverage
Eugenia Amporfu |
PS 01/2 |
Vers une couverture maladie universelle : Dix bonnes pratiques du Rwanda à prendre comme exemple dans certains pays en voies de développement
Laurent Musango, Ole Doetinchem, Diane Muhongerwa et Hertilan Inyarubuga |
PS 01/3 |
Moving toward universal coverage: the impact of different reform alternatives on equity in financing and utilization of health care in South Africa
John E. Ataguba and Prof Di McIntyre |
PS 01 / Room:
User fees - removal and exemptions I |
PS 01/4 |
Removal of user fees for caesareans and under-fives in northern Sudan: a review of its implementation and effectiveness
Dr Sophie Witter, Dr Khalda Khalid Mousa, Dr Rania Hussein Al-Amin, Dr Sali Hassan Gasim, Dr Mohammed Said, Fatima Abdulrahman Alhassan |
PS 01/5 |
Removal of user fees for maternal and child health services in South East Nigeria: Experiences of the community and Health care providers
Uzochukwu BSC, Chukwuogo OI and Onwujekwe OE |
PS 01/6 |
Which way to reduce or minimise Out of Pocket Expenses in Africa? Lessons in replacing user fees from Ghana and Uganda
Juliet Nabyonga, Frank Nyonator and Chris Atim |
PS 01 / Room:
Covering those outside the formal employment sector I |
PS 01/7 |
Efficiency, equity and feasibility of strategies to identify the poor: An application to premium exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana
Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Genevieve Aryeeteya, Ernst Spaan,Irene Agyepong, Rob Baltussen |
PS 01/8 |
Scaling up Community Based Health Insurance Scheme: Nigerian Experience towards Universal Coverage
Kenneth Ojo and Paul Angbazo |
PS 01/9 |
Expérience du financement basé sur la performance dans le diocèse de Batouri au Cameroun : des défis pour le passage à l’échelle
Basile Keugoung, Jean Pierre Tsafack, Isidore Sieleunou, Florent Ymele Fouelifack, Delphine Boulenger |
PS 01/10 |
Conditions conducive to the development of social health insurance in Africa, with particular reference to Nigeria
David Newlands, Chidi Ukandu, Chinwe Ogbonna |
PS 01 / Room:
Other financing issues I |
PS 01/11 |
How equitable is the Kenyan health system?
Jane Chuma |
PS 01/12 |
Equity of National Health Insurance in Ghana: who is enrolling, who is not and why?
Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Thomas de Hope, Irene Agyepong, Ernst Spaan, Rob Baltussen |
PS 01/13 |
Demand for Care in South Africa: Insights into a National Health Insurance System
Divine Ikenwilo and Okore Okorafor |
PS 01/14 |
Benefit incidence of national health insurance scheme in the Southeast Nigeria: Implications for financial risk protection against health care costs
Eric Obikeze, Obinna Onwujekwe, Kara Hanson, BSC Uzochukwu, Ogoamaka Chukwuogo, Eloka Uchegbu,Chike Onochie |
14:00
15:00 |
LUNCH |
Parallel session 2 (Tuesday, 15:00 - 16:30) |
PS 02 / Room: Teranga
Improved domestic public funding of health care |
PS 02/1 |
Fonds d’achat de service de santé, une meilleure stratégie pour financer les programmes de santé
Keito Zola, Eddy |
PS 02/2 |
Examining incidence of catastrophic health expenditures on different healthcare services in Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe |
PS 02/3 |
Health care financing in Cameroon: Trends analysis and overview of main challenges?
Isidore Sieleunou, Basile Keugoung, Yumo Habakkuk |
PS 02/4 |
Modelling the resource requirements and possible funding mechanisms for universal health coverage: A case study of South Africa
Prof Di McIntyre |
PS 02 / Room:
Financing issues: specific groups or services |
PS 02/5 |
Overcoming Financial Obstacles to Reproductive Health Care: Experiences with Free Care and Health Insurance
Allison Gamble Kelley, Aarthi Rao, Amanda Folsom, Marty Makinen |
PS 02/6 |
Funding and the access to maternal and child health in Tanzania
Kassimu Tani |
PS 02/7 |
Out-of-pocket spendings on TB and HIV infections in middle-belt, Nigeria
Umeh, E.U |
PS 02/8 |
Inequities in child delivery by skilled health providers in Namibia: A decomposition analysis
Eyob Zere Asbu |
PS 02 / Room:
Purchasing of services (benefit packages, provider payment mechanisms) I |
PS 02/9 |
The implications of service level agreements on access and utilisation of child and reproductive health care Services at CHAM institutions in Malawi
Elvis Mpakati Gama, and Barbara McPake |
PS 02/10 |
Splitting functions in a local health system: early lessons from Bubanza and Ngozi projects in Burundi
Maria Paola Bertone and Bruno Meessen |
PS 02/11 |
Pour une médecine de proximité : renouveler la participation communautaire? Les comités de santé dans le cadre du financement basé sur la performance au Burundi
Jean-Benoît Falisse, Bruno Meessen, Michel Bossuyt et Juvénal Ndayishimiye |
PS 02 / Room:
Service access issues I |
PS 02/12 |
The challenges and milestones of the use of artemisinin-based combination therapy for treating malaria among under-five children in Ibadan, Nigeria
Odor King and Osuolale ADEKUNLE |
PS 02/13 |
Health sector Reforms in Uganda: How well does the Health Sub-district (HSD) meet Women’s Health Concerns
Kagarura R.Willy |
PS 02/14 |
Examining household treatment seeking , costs of illness and payment mechanisms in southeast Nigeria
Ezeoke Ogochukwu, Onwujekwe O E, Uzochukwu B S, Uguru N |
PS 02/15 |
Reducing maternal deaths: Is “Access” a convincing explanation for why many women choose to deliver at home?
Edward N. Okeke |
16:30
17:00 |
BREAK / POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
Plenary 2: Tuesday |
17:00
18:15 |
Main conference hall: Teranga
Presenting the WHO report on Universal coverage
Key note speaker: David Evans, WHO author of the report
Chair: TBD |
18:15
19:30 |
Networking time |
20:00 |
WELCOME COCKTAIL DINNER |
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Wednesday 16 March 2011 |
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Plenary 3: Wednesday |
09:00
10:30 |
Main conference hall: Teranga
Messages from other regional and national health economics and policy networks |
Parallel session 3 (Wednesday, 10:30 - 12:00) |
PS 03 / Room: Teranga
Towards universal coverage II |
PS 03/1 |
Quel avenir pour la couverture sanitaire universelle au Sénégal ? Une analyse des principales réformes
Mme Ndiaye Ndèye Maguette Guèye |
PS 03/2 |
Is universal health coverage an option for developing countries to bridge health inequalities?
John E. Ataguba and James Akazili |
PS 03/3 |
Assurance Maladie Universelle au Gabon : un atout pour le bien être de la population
Laurent Musango and Aboubacar INOUA |
PS 03 / Room:
User fees - removal and exemptions II |
PS 03/4 |
Removing user fees in health services in low-income countries: a framework for evaluation and action
David Hercot, Bruno Meessen, Valery Ridde, Lucy Gilson |
PS 03/5 |
L’achat des services et la reduction de la barriere financiere dans le Kasaï Occidental
Zéphyrin Kanyinda Tshiyombo |
PS 03/6 |
Is free health care truly free and equitable? using DHS, NHA and BIA to analyse the effectiveness and equity dimensions of health financing policy in post conflict Liberia
S T Varpillah, Tesfaye Dereje, Chris Atim |
PS 03/7 |
Financement de la santé au Mali: Cas des gratuités dans le cadre de quatorze programmes de santé, année 2007-2008
Samba Diarra |
PS 03 / Room:
Covering those outside the formal employment sector II |
PS 03/8 |
The Impact of Micro-Health Insurance on the Access to Health Care Services among the Informal Sector Employee in Nigeria
Saheed O. Olayiwola |
PS 03/9 |
A Stepwise Approach from Community-Based Health Insurance to Universal Coverage in Low Income Countries
Hong Wang, Nancy Pielemeier |
PS 03/10 |
Projet d’amélioration de l’accessibilité financière aux traitements des infections opportunistes et des bilans biomédicaux des PV VIH au Sénégal (Phase pilote à Kaolack et Ziguinchor)
Christian Konan Yao |
PS 03/11 |
Willingness to Pay for Voluntary Health Insurance in Tanzania
August J. Kuwawenaruwa |
PS 03 / Room:
Other financing issues II |
PS 03/12 |
Catastrophic health expenditures at variable thresholds levels
Chima A. Onoka, Obinna E. Onwujekwe, Kara Hanson, Benjamin Uzochukwu |
PS 03/13 |
Reassessing catastrophic health care payments with a developing country application
John E. Ataguba |
PS 03/14 |
Determinants of making catastrophic health expenditures and the role of Health Insurance
Suzan Makawia, Gemini Mtei, Josephine Borghi |
PS 03/15 |
Supranational Subsidies and Affordability of Essential Medicines in Low-Income Countries: the Case of Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies in Nigeria
Hyacinth Eme Ichoku, John Ataguba, and William Fonta |
12:00
12:30 |
BREAK / POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
Parallel session 4 (Wednesday, 12:30 - 14:00) |
PS 04 / Room: Teranga
Purchasing of services (benefit packages, provider payment mechanisms) II |
PS 04/1 |
Why performance-based contracting failed in Uganda: evaluating the implementation, context and complexity of health system interventions
Freddie Ssengooba, Barbara McPake and Natasha Palmer |
PS 04/2 |
Renforcement des districts sanitaires en RDC: analyse comparative de deux approches
Dr Serge Mayaka, Bruno Meessen Myriam Malengreau Jean Macq |
PS 04/3 |
The impact of National Health Insurance on the behaviour of providers and patients in two districts of Ghana.
Philip A Dalinjong |
PS 04/4 |
Financement verticaux et Financement basé sur la performance dans trois pays d’Afrique Centrale : une opportunité manquée ?
Nicolas de Borman, Dr. Serge Mayaka, Sublime Nkindi, Dr. Louis Rusa, Bruno Meessen |
PS 04 / Room:
Policy process and actors I |
PS 04/5 |
Waiting for chloroquine: A community’s understanding of changes in 1st-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria, and the need for effective policy communication
Vincent Okungu |
PS 04/6 |
Rôle des ressources humaines : Quelles incitations pour une meilleure motivation des professionnels de la santé ? Cas du Burkina Faso
Rosemonde M. Guissou, Fadima Yaya Bocoum et Dr Seni Kouanda |
PS 04/7 |
Accessibilité des services de santé en Afrique de l’Ouest : le cas de la Côte d’Ivoire
Koudou Zohoré Olivier |
PS 04 / Room:
Economic evaluation I |
PS 04/8 |
Cost-effectiveness of insulin monotherapy versus oral blood glucose lowering agents in type 2 diabetes patients in six sub-Saharan countries
Kwamena Attome Beecham, Said Norou Diop, Jean Claude Mbanya, Eva Wangechi Njenga, Augustine Efedaye Ohwovoriole, Kaushik Ramaiya, Ole Henriksen, Pavika Jain |
PS 04/9 |
Estimating the economic burden of malaria in Sub Saharan Africa: a multi-country study
Alex Adjagba |
PS 04/10 |
Dépenses de paludisme chez les enfants de moins de cinq ans au Burkina Faso : résultats préliminaires d’enquête auprès des ménages
Danielle Belemsaga/Yugbaré, Fadima Yaya Bocoum et Alex Adjagba |
PS 04/11 |
Costing the large-scale implementation of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in Children delivered through Community Health Workers in Senegal
Mouhamed Ndiaye, Mouhamed Ndiaye, Catherine Pitt, Badara Cisse, El Hadj Ba, Paul Milligan, Oumar Gaye, Lesong Conteh |
PS 04 / Room:
Other issues |
PS 04/12 |
Analyse du processus de capitalisation régionale d’expériences d’exemption du paiement des soins en Afrique de l’Ouest
Queuille L, Ridde V., Kafando Y., Robert E. |
PS 04/13 |
Improving visibility of African Experts in the international literature. Way forward
David Hercot, Basile Keugoung, Juliet Nabyonga, Yibeltal Assefa, Wim Van Damme |
PS 04/14 |
Contribution des ménages abidjanais au financement de services de santé de long terme
Gbratto W. Sonia |
PS 04/15 |
Knowledge management for better health care financing policies: lessons from the African PBF Community of Practice
Bruno Meessen |
14:00
15:00 |
LUNCH |
Parallel session 5 (Thursday, 15:00 - 16:30) |
PS 05 / Room: Teranga
User fees - removal and exemptions III |
PS 05/1 |
The sudden removal of user fees: the perspective of a frontline manager in Burundi
Manassé Nimpagaritse |
PS 05/2 |
Les initiatives de gratuité au Cameroun : Quelle effectivité dans la prise en charge de la tuberculose ?
Yves Bertrand Djouda Feudjio |
PS 05/3 |
User fee reduction in Kenya: adherence to revised charges at primary care facilities and implications for quality of care
Anthony Opwora |
PS 05 / Room:
Covering those outside the formal employment sector III |
PS 05/4 |
Examining community-based health insurance (CBHI) financial risk protection in southeast Nigeria
Chijioke Okoli, Obinna Onwujekwe, Benjamin Uzochukwu and Eric Obikeze |
PS 05/5 |
Understanding the role of social capital in demand for community-based health insurance in Senegal
Philipa Mladovsky, Pascal Ndiaye, Alfred Inis Ndiaye, Benjamin Lelubre, Werner Soors, Elias Mossialos and Bart Criel |
PS 05/6 |
National Health Insurance in Ghana - a systematic appraisal of the impact of community perceptions on enrollment
Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Genevieve Aryeetey, Irene Agyepong, Ernst Spaan, Rob Baltussen |
PS 05 / Room:
Other financing issues III |
PS 05/7 |
The effectiveness of financial and nonfinancial interventions in attracting nurses to remote areas of Tanzania: a contingent valuation study
Michael A Munga, Gaute Torsvik, Ottar Mæstad |
PS 05/8 |
Progressivity and determinants of out of pocket health care payments in Zambia
Felix Mwenge and John E. Ataguba |
PS 05/9 |
Costs of seeking health care: a barrier to universal coverage in DRC
Caryn Bredenkamp |
PS 05/10 |
Analyse Situationnelle sur la réforme des critères d’allocation des ressources dans le secteur de la santé au Sénégal
Dr. Ndack Wadji LY, M. Ibnou DIAW, Mame Cor NDOUR, Moussa MBAYE |
PS 05 / Room:
Service access issues II |
PS 05/11 |
Stratégie d’amélioration du financement des évacuations sanitaires, District Sanitaire de Kéita (Niger)
Barro Mamoudou, Hama Djibo , Arba Nouhou , Olivier EVREUX |
PS 05/12 |
Re-consideration of the Demand and Supply side challenges facing community health insurance in promoting financial risk protection and access
Jane Macha, August Joakim, Josephine Borghi |
PS 05/13 |
Universal coverage and access barriers to use of health care in Ghana
Bertha Garshong , Barbara Osei-Mireku |
PS 05/14 |
Utilization and predictors of health insurance coverage among the elderly in a rural setting, Kenya
Nyagero J. M, Gakure R. E., Wanzala P., Keraka M. |
16:30
16:50 |
BREAK / POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
Plenary 4: Wednesday |
16:50
17:45 |
Main conference hall: Teranga The Role of Leadership and Country Ownership in Achieving Universal Health Coverage
Key note speaker: TBD |
18:00
19:30 |
Main conference hall: Teranga
AfHEA ASSEMBLY |
20:15 |
GALA DINNER |
Thursday 17 March 2011 |
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Plenary 5: Thursday |
09:00
09:30 |
Main conference hall: Teranga
The optimal utilization of HIV resources for universal coverage
Key note speaker: Dr Meskerem Grunitzky-Bekele, West Africa Regional Director for UNAIDS |
Plenary 6: Thursday |
09:30
11:00 |
Main conference hall: Teranga
The challenge of achieving universal coverage in low income countries
Chair: TBD |
Parallel session 6 (Thursday, 11:00 - 12:30) |
PS 06 / Room: Teranga
Policy process and actors II |
PS 06/1 |
Promoting universal access to health services in post-conflict situations: what role can large scale cash transfer programmes play for better outcomes?
Nkwenkeu F. S |
PS 06/2 |
The Balanced Scorecard: A Tool for Developing the Health Sector Development Plan IV in Ethiopia
Rahel Gizaw |
PS 06/3 |
Characteristics and operation of health facility committees in Kenya’s primary care facilities: implications for promoting universal access
Evelyn Waweru, Sassy Molyneux, Mitsuru Toda, Antony Opwora, Greg Fegan, Abdisalan Noor, Catherine Goodman |
PS 06/4 |
Assessment of the role of the private sector in the health sector in Ghana
Marty Makinen, Stephanie Sealy, Sam Adjei, Ricardo Bitran, Bitran y Asociados and Mavis McCarthy |
PS 06 / Room:
Towards universal coverage III |
PS 06/5 |
Universal coverage through National Health Insurance in South Africa: Do quality gaps between the public and private sector matter?
Okore Okorafor |
PS 06/6 |
Universal Coverage: Reflections of a missed opportunity in Rivers State, Nigeria
Dr Tarry Asoka |
PS 06/7 |
Is Rwanda replicable? Mali’s quest to learn from Rwanda’s health insurance success and adapt its approach in a national strategy to extend mutuelles de santé
Allison Gamble Kelley and Cheickna Touré |
PS 06 / Room:
Economic evaluation II |
PS 06/8 |
Cost and cost-effectiveness of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in infants with Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine in Senegal
Mouhamed Ndiaye, Abdou Diop, Jean Louis Ndiaye, Doudou Sow, Ousmane Sy, Alexandra De Sousa, Oumar Gaye |
PS 06/9 |
Costs and Effects of a Multifaceted Intervention to Improve the Quality of Care of Children in District Hospitals in Kenya
Edwin W. Barasa, Susan Cleary, Mike English |
PS 06/10 |
Cost analysis of psychiatric hospital services in Nigeria; A case study of Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu (FNHE), South-East Nigeria
Charles C Ezenduka |
PS 06 / Room:
Session on health financing and universal coverage in Senegal |
PS 06/11 |
La couverture du risque maladie au Sénégal
Couverture universelle et immunisation : expérience du Sénégal
Mbaye Sène et Dr Aboubacry Fall |
12:30
13:00 |
BREAK / POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
Plenary 7 |
13:00
14:00 |
Main conference hall: Teranga
Panel discussion: key messages from conference
Chair and presenter: Prof Di McIntyre |
14:00
15:00 |
LUNCH |
15:00
16:00 |
MESSAGES FROM PARTNERS AND CLOSING CEREMONY |
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Networking
Departure |