Digitizing payments and advancing universal health coverage
To meet this challenge of inclusion, Senegal's Agence Nationale de la Couverture Maladie Universelle has deployed an ambitious digital payment platform. Over 200,000 workers will now have access to quality healthcare subsidized by the Senegalese government. While 81%...
CMU in Tambacounda: More than $250 million to be invested in free healthcare by 2020
In 2020, more than 250 million francs were paid out to health facilities as part of the free healthcare scheme for children and pregnant women. The announcement was made by , Director General of the Universal Health Coverage Agency (Acmu), on the bangs of a tour...
Analysis of the political economy of the CSU in Burkina Faso
RESADE (Recherche pour la Santé et le Développement) organized a workshop this Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Ouagadougou, to present the results of the study entitled " Economie politique de la couverture sanitaire universelle au Burkina Faso : points de vue...
Journalists benefit from INAM health insurance
This is a major step towards improving the living and working conditions of journalists in the private press. "We felt it was important to subscribe to INAM health insurance for our union members, because today we work in a precarious situation. Almost all journalists...
SAINT-LOUIS – PRESENTATION OF MEMBERSHIP CARDS FOR A MUTUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY
In the commune of Ross Béthio, several children of migrants returning to the Saint-Louis region received their membership cards for the commune's Mutuelle de Santé. The operation is on the initiative of the leaders of the Jeunesse Espoir organization, as...
Health insurance: CNAMGS conducts strategic study of medical deserts
How can we bring health insurance to deepest Gabon ? A question that is addressing the Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie et de garantie sociale (CNAMGS) through a workshop on support for the project to operationalize health departments for the...
National Assembly opts for free healthcare for minorities
Victory for the million pygmies after the vote on a bill enshrining positive discrimination in favor of marginalized indigenous peoples . This is the culmination of a long struggle by the Congolese civil society organization Dynamique des groupes des peuples...
Медицинское страхование: ЦНАМГС проводит стратегическое исследование медицинских пустынь
Каким образом можно довести медицинское страхование до глубочайшего Габона ? Именно эту проблему решает Национальная касса страхования от болезней и социальных гарантий (Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie et de Garantie Sociale, CNAMGS) в рамках...
Round Table Discussion held with Gov’t Top Officials and WB: “KAZAKHSTAN: HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK”
World Bank (WB) country office for Kazakhstan held a high-level Round Table Discussion titled: KAZAKHSTAN: HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK today, on April 27, 2021 via zoom. This meeting was devoted to promting State Officials to recognize the need to invest into...
Vietnam hopes to have no shortage of Covid vaccines from 2022
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Japan to fund $2.8 million project for Vietnam population vulnerable to Covid-19
The project "Mitigating Covid-19 impacts on vulnerable populations, ensuring national progress to achieve SDGs in Vietnam" will be co-implemented by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Vietnam's Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of...
Kazakhstan started mass vaccinations with homegrown QazVac vaccine
Kazakhstan has rolled out its homegrown coronavirus vaccine, with the central Asian country’s health minister receiving the jab on live television. QazCovid-in, also known as QazVac, is a two-shot vaccine that is in third-stage trials, The Guardian reports. Agence...
State Budget 2021-2023 approved: Health spending protected from cuts
In a Law adopted on December 2, 2020 No.379-VІ ЗРК, Government of Kazakhstan has approved "Republican budget for years 2021-2023" - which outlines all state (public) funds for the three-year budget cycle. In this publicly available document, the Attachment No.5...
Implementing CSU in Burkina Faso: RAME conducts two studies
During a workshop in Ouagadougou, RAME (Réseau accès aux médicaments essentiels) presented the results of two major studies on universal health coverage. The opening ceremony was chaired by Dr Pierre YAMEOGO, technical secretary for universal health...
MUGEF-CI: the State of Côte d’Ivoire called upon to pay its share of contributions
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mutuelle générale des fonctionnaires et agents de l'Etat de Côte d'Ivoire (MUGEF-CI), Kouamé Mesmin Comoé, calls on on Wednesday April 14, 2021, the State to pay the employer's share. "The employer's share amounts to...