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Le projet gabonais d’assurance maladie pour tous entre dans sa phase finale
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In English Un système de santé unique et universel, voué à terme à assurer la population gabonaise toute entière, continue d’étendre sa couverture. Le Gabon a commencé à déployer la Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie et de Garantie Sociale (CNAMGS) en 2008, dans le cadre d'une volonté plus large d’améliorer le niveau de vie. Initialement destinée à assurer les citoyens les…

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The Report: Gabon 2013: Health & Education
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Under the National Health Strategy adopted in 2010, Gabon has made a push to upgrade service quality and expand hospital capacity. In recent years, the country’s health strategy has centred on heavy investment in infrastructure. The Ministry of Health aims to enforce a set of quality standards by 2020, but with 86% of the population living in urban areas, rural structures face challenges including…

Analysis

Skills for jobs: Efforts to expand technical education are under way
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Improving technical and vocational training has become a top priority for Gabon as it looks to shift the focus of education towards more marketable skills and align programmes with the demands of the labour market, especially growth sectors such as mining and forestry. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS: Indeed, Gabon currently suffers from a shortage in technical and managerial competences, particularly in…

Overview

Constructing universal care: A rapidly urbanising population is shaping the sector’s future
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Significant changes are under way in Gabon’s health care industry as the government works to align the system with international standards by 2025. Under its national health policy, adopted in 2010, the government aims to deliver better quality health care to its people. Construction is under way to upgrade and build new health facilities and boost access to services and supplies, while a national…

Overview

Ensuring access: Major changes to infrastructure and curricula will support outcomes
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Ambitious investment goals have been set for the next decade to ensure universal access to education. With more than 50% of Gabon’s population under the age of 19, a major expansion programme in primary, secondary and higher education is under way as the government aims at strengthening teaching standards and delivering better quality education by overcoming the obstacles that hinder the sector’s…

Analysis

Partnerships for prevention: Treatments, vaccines and awareness campaigns are prioritised
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While the economy grows, social indicators in Gabon lag behind. Consequently, the government has committed to developing a national health policy to improve access to quality health care. To pursue this goal, Gabon has devised a national health plan 2011-15 (Plan National de Développement Sanitaire, PNDS), to accelerate reforms and give the country a boost towards achieving its Millennium Development…

Viewpoint

Dr Lachlan Forrow, President, International Foundation of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, on improving health care
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On April 16, 1913, Dr Albert Schweitzer and his wife Hélène Breslau, a nurse, arrived in Lambaréné to provide modern medical care to local Africans – and not just native Africans, but also missionaries and anyone else in need, regardless of race, nationality, religion or socioeconomic status. One aspect of Schweitzer’s work that is greatly underappreciated is how extensively he engaged the…

Country Report

The Report: Gabon 2012
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Gabon has rebounded strongly from the economic crisis of 2008-09. As the economy still depends largely on natural resrource extraction, low prices and weak global demand for commodities in 2009 shrank GDP by 1.4%, according to statistics provided by the DGEPF. Growth, however, returned in 2010 and has remained robust since. The economy grew by 6.7% in 2011 and is forecast to grow at 5.6% in 2012,

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