Health financing progress matrix (HFPM) validation workshop
The Ministry of Health with the support of WHO and other partners is conducting a Health Financing Progress Matrix validation workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to validate and update the preliminary results from an assessment of Ethiopia's health...
National Health Accounts: Data validation workshop
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is currently conducting the 8th round of National Health Accounts (NHA) to better understand the resource flows and expenditures in the health sector and to generate evidence to inform policy decisions. In the second half of September, the...
The Ministry of Health is organizing a two-day digital health conference on ‘Digital Health for Universal Health Coverage’
The Ministry of Health is organizing a two-day digital health conference and exhibition with the slogan ‘Digital Health for Universal Health Coverage’ from September 15 to 16, 2021. Participants are encouraged to attend the event online by registering using this Zoom...
Lessons & Way Forward from the First Webinar on Health Financing in India
The Webinar Series on health financing in India kicked off on 18 August 2021 to discuss the burning health financing and social health protection issues in the country and debate potential ways forward. The four-webinar series is organised by P4H in collaboration with...
Policy versus the ground reality of Kenya’s free maternity program
Nirmala Ravishankar (ThinkWell), Boniface Mbuthia (ThinkWell Kenya), Stacey Orangi (KEMRI Wellcome Trust), and Edwine Barasa (KEMRI Wellcome Trust) Covid-19 threatens to reverse the progress countries have achieved in improving maternal and child survival, even as it...
COVID-19 vaccine is now mandatory for teachers in New South Wales, Australia
In Australia, the COVID-19 vaccine has become compulsory for all teachers in New South Wales from November onwards. Teaching staffs are the latest cohort of workers to be included in the state’s mandatory vaccination, aiming to curb a rise of Delta variant. They...
Bhutan considering third dose of Covid-19 vaccine booster next year
Bhutan considers a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccines next year due to Delta variant concerns. Bhutan has achieved full vaccination for over 95 percent of the population aged 18 years or over. Currently, Bhutan starts inoculating children aged between 12 to...
Indonesia reaches 100 million Covid vaccine doses
Indonesia has administered 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Over 23% of the Indonesian population have received at least their first dose, while about 13% are fully vaccinated. According to Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, Indonesia has been ranked as the...
In Brunei, more than half of population received at least one dose of vaccine
In Brunei, COVID-19 vaccines have been administered with at least one dose, accounting for 51.1 percent of the country’s population or 231,613 individuals while 21.2 percent or 96,212 people have completed the inoculation. The Brunei government officially...
Bangladesh steps up efforts to open schools and colleges
Bangladesh has push efforts to inoculate teachers, support staff in schools and colleges as well as their families, aiming to resume physical classes in educational institutions in the coming weeks. To curb the pandemic, the Bangladesh government is taking steps to...
Sri Lanka plans to vaccinate people age between 20-30-year
Sri Lanka plans to inoculate people aged between 20 and 30 years or 3.5 million people at district level. Eight million doses of vaccine which are expected to arrive in September will be used for the inoculation. Currently, prioritization is given to people in this...
Malaysia examines need for booster shots as virus spreads
Malaysia now considers giving booster Covid-19 vaccine shots due to the fast-spreading delta variant. An expert committee has been set up to conduct the need assessment for a third shot and the recommendation is expected to be given by the end of September. 46% of...
PhilHealth now covers home isolation of mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced a health benefits package to cover home isolation of mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients. The COVID-19 Home Isolation Benefit Package (CHIBP) can help free up hospital beds for COVID-19 patients...
Singapore provides additional subsidies to Child Development Account in September
Singapore provides a top-up of $200 to all Singaporean children aged between 0 and 6 years in 2021. The top-up will be added to their Child Development Account (CDA) from mid-Sep 2021. Approximately 250,000 children will receive this benefit. This top-up is part...
Four orphan drugs added to the national drug list in Thailand
Financial protection is one of the UHC goals. Health financing reforms aim to protect people from financial hardships associated with the use of health services and products. In many countries, medicine largely contributes to out-of-pocket payments that cause...