Health Financing Strategy: 2017 – 2027, Towards Universal Health Coverage for Zambia.
Universal Health Coverage (UHC), is top of the global health policy agenda and has been adopted as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Zambia’s transformative agenda acknowledges that a healthy nation is key to our socio-economic development agenda. The transformative agenda has been aligned towards attainment of UHC for all. Pivotal to attaining UHC is the design and implementation of innovative, predictable and sustainable mechanisms to finance health care in a challenging and changing environment. Given the importance of sustainable financing for healthcare in Zambia, the Ministry of Health has developed the first ever Healthcare Financing Strategy to run from 2017 to 2027. The Healthcare Financing Strategy supports the sector’s National Health Strategic Plan (NHSP) and the National Vision 2030 which expresses the Zambian people’s aspiration to become a prosperous middle-income nation by 2030. The Healthcare Financing Strategy is premised on the guiding principles of equity, efficiency, transparency, accountability, effective partnerships and evidence based decision making.
