Indonesia to give Covid-19 booster shots to health workers next week
Indonesia plans to provide the third doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 1.47 million health care workers throughout the nation due to concerning of health workers having a high risk of contracting coronavirus. For more information, please click. Source:...
Bhutan’s Vaccination Program Scales New Heights
Bhutan has reach 90 percent of vaccination of adults population. Although Bhutan's small population would help for achieving the fast vaccination coverage, the country also benefited from strong and effective messaging from top officials and an established...
Bangladesh borrows $940M for COVID-19
Bangladesh borrows $940 M from external loan to finance vaccine purchase, aiming to enhance COVID-19 vaccine coverage. This loan will be used for purchasing 44.7M coronavirus vaccine doses which could vaccinate more than 20 million people. The...
New article on evaluation of health systems equity in Indonesia now available in documents section
Universal health coverage (UHC) improves the equity of the health system. With UHC, the poor and vulnerable populations could access quality and essential health care without financial barriers or the risk of catastrophic health expenditure. To close equity gaps,...
Singapore provides support package to help workers and business
Due to heightened alert for COVID-19, Singapore government implements tightened safe management measures and at the same time, the government will offer a support package to reduce the impact on workers and businesses. This support will...
New article on does tax-based health financing offer protection from financial catastrophe? Findings from a household economic impact survey of ischemic heart disease in Malaysia now available on documents section
Universal health coverage (UHC) protects the households from falling into poverty due to catastrophic health spending. Malaysia, an upper middle-income country, has achieved UHC through tax-based financing model similar to the Sweden model. This study measures the...
Australia approves new additional budget for mental health and suicide prevention
Australia approves $2.3 billion to mental health and suicide prevention over the next four years. $156.8 million from the federal government is funded to three months of follow-up care for people discharged from hospital after a suicide attempt. $22...
Philippines provides special risk allowance for public and private health workers
Philippines has released the Special Allotment Release Order and the Notice of Cash Allocation amounting to P9.02-billion to the Department of Health to cover the payment of the Special Risk Allowances (SRA) of public and private health workers. The...
Thai private health insurance now covers for homecare treatment
The Office of Insurance Commission (OIC) announced that Covid-19 patients in home and community isolation programmes are eligible for reimbursements from the private insurance companies. Moreover, following this announcement, the insurance companies will be...
Maximizing convenience in payment of medical expenses covered by health insurance amid Covid-19
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Health ministry given extra funding for Covid-19 fight
https://en.vneconomy.vn/health-ministry-given-extra-funding-for-covid-19-fight.htm
Health funding, farming reform, later retirement for women: Israel’s new budget
From banking reform to stipends for elderly, and from kashrut changes to Tel Aviv subway, here’s what you need to know about the budget, which needs Knesset approval by November 4. Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz reportedly secured a NIS 2 billion ($619 million)...
SENEGAL: Financial agreement with the USA and Europe for vaccine production
Senegal, several European institutions and countries, and the United States in particular, have announced the signing in Dakar of an agreement to finance the installation in this West African country of a production plant for vaccines against Covid-19 and other...
Togo: Two African training institutes include the Program Budget in their curricula
For three days, exchanges between African experts provided an opportunity to examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on program-budget reform and the effectiveness of public policies in the WAEMU region, and to draw lessons from the pandemic concerning the...
Mali:Malian parliament earmarks FCFA 32 billion for Covid-19
These funds, approved by the CNT, will supplement the budget deficits earmarked for the fight against Covid in Mali. According to Minister of Health 6.647 billion CFA francs have been injected by Mali's development partners in the fight against the...