Year: 2023 | Month: December | Volume: 13 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 106-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20231212
How Zanzibar's Health Services Fund Can Learn from Lower and Middle Income Countries to Achieve Universal Health Coverage: A Blueprint for Success
Mansour Maulid Mshenga1,2, Farhat Jowhar Khalid3, Shaaban Hassan Haji4
1Zanzibar Integrated HIV, Hepatitis, TB and Leprosy Programme, Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
2School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
3Zanzibar Maisha Bora Foundation, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
4State University of Zanzibar, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Corresponding Author: Mansour Maulid Mshenga
ABSTRACT
In order to achieve universal health coverage, the newly established Zanzibar Health Services Fund require to stress the need of raising sufficient funds for financing health care as well as the necessity of efficient fund administration and control, community engagement and accountability measures, as well as strong monitoring and evaluation methods are also emphasized as being essential for tracking advancement and making defensible decisions. The key proposal to Zanzibar Health Services Fund including bolstering governance frameworks, expanding revenue streams, and creating channels for citizen. It is important to apply best practices locally and draw lessons from the experiences of other nation’s health funds in lower and middle income countries to the recently established Zanzibar Health Services Fund to attaining Universal Health Coverage and enhancing medical results in Zanzibar.
Key words: Health Fund, Sustainability, Equity, Universal Health.