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News Burundi » Health: World Bank provides $54.6M for Burundi health system

News channel or source: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/world-bank-provides-546m-for-burundi-health-system/2228547
Published on: Monday 03 May 2021

The World Bank will provide $54.6 million to support better health care in Burundi, a bank official said on Monday in the capital Bujumbura. "This morning we signed a financing agreement of $54.6 ...

News Burundi » Health: Burundi switches on solar at five health facilities

News channel or source: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/18/burundi-switches-on-solar-at-five-health-facilities/
Published on: Wednesday 18 February 2026

Burundi switches on solar at five health facilities A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-led initiative has installed hybrid solar-plus-storage systems at five health facilities in Burundi. A ...

News Burundi » Health: Introduction Of Performance-Based Financing In Burundi Was Associated With Improvements In Care And Quality

News channel or source: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0081?download=true
Published on: Sunday 30 November 2014

Several governments in low- and middle-income countries have adopted performance-based financing to increase health care use and improve the quality of health services. We evaluated the effects of ...

News Burundi » Health: Study proposes measures to strengthen Burundi's plant health system

News channel or source: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-burundi-health.html
Published on: Thursday 03 November 2022

A CABI-led study has proposed seven key steps which should be taken to strengthen Burundi's plant health system (PHS) and in doing so help improve the country's food security and ability to tap into ...

News Burundi » Health: Burundi reports 3 mpox cases, health ministry says

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/burundi-reports-3-mpox-cases-health-ministry-says-2024-07-26/
Published on: Thursday 25 July 2024

BUJUMBURA, July 26 (Reuters) - Burundi has reported three cases of mpox in its commercial capital and a nearby town, its health ministry said. The cases of the viral infection, two in Bujumbura, and ...

News Burundi » Health: Deogratias Niyizonkiza: it takes a village to build a hospital

News channel or source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/oct/08/burundi-health-deogratias-niyizonkiza-community
Published on: Wednesday 08 October 2014

A survivor of the Burundi civil war and Rwanda’s genocide has led a community to rebuild healthcare in his home country After surviving genocides in his native Burundi and next-door Rwanda, Deogratias ...

News Burundi » Health: Burundi: Health Care Too Costly for the Public

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/200405070521.html
Published on: Wednesday 05 May 2004

Nairobi — Almost one-in-seven Burundians lack access to the most basic of health care because of the application of an expensive cost recovery health care system, Meinie Nicolai, the operational ...

News Burundi » Health: IV. Background: Health, Poverty and Conflict

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/burundi0906/6.htm
Published on: Thursday 15 September 2005

The current Burundian government under President Pierre Nkurunziza was elected in August 2005, following a decade of civil war and a long process of political transition. The dominant force in the ...

News Burundi » Health: Introduction Of Performance-Based Financing In Burundi Was Associated With Improvements In Care And Quality

News channel or source: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0081
Published on: Sunday 30 November 2014

Several governments in low- and middle-income countries have adopted performance-based financing to increase health care use and improve the quality of health services. We evaluated the effects of ...