ILO-VSS co-organized training on customer care targeting Viet Nam’s health and social insurance members
Under the framework of ILO-Luxembourg project “Support to the extension of social health protection in Southeast Asia”, the ILO and Viet Nam Social Security (VSS) co-organized a three-day training on customer care skills for 25 VSS staff working on customer care. The...
Essential Health Services Package of Ethiopia
The Essential Health Service Package, launched in November 2019, aims to provide access to quality health services without any financial challenges regardless of age, ability to pay and economic status, and geographic location for the population in Ethiopia.
Prioritizing Essential Packages of Health Services in six countries in SSA
This document presents case studies from six African countries (Eswatini, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa) and: • reviews the process by which prioritized SRHR interventions were included in countries’ health benefits packages; • discusses...
Protocol for Prioritization of Health Interventions for Revision of the Essential Health service Package in Ethiopia
Priority setting is selecting interventions, among long-list of options, which can address the most important health needs of the population. However, selection of specific intervention to be included in the Essential Health Service Package or health insurance benefit...
Accelerating broad and equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine in Ethiopia
In an effort to accelerate fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Bank is providing additional financing to the Ethiopia COVID-19 Emergency Response Project in the form of a grant totaling $207 million to finance vaccine acquisition and deployment...
The Government of Viet Nam specifies how Covid-19 related consultations and tests will be financed by the Health Insurance
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Social assistance in Ethiopia during COVID-19
World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19, 2020 (HFPS) and the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey, 2018-19 (ESS) are used to assess whether families got help during the pandemic, how quickly they got it, and whether government assistance benefited the...
New report on implementing minimum service standards now available in documents section
Indonesia has increased health insurance coverage to 83 % of the total population. Due to the rise of noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevalence, public health spending may need to shift the focus to primary health care. Indonesia has released several iterations of its...
Partnership collaboration in the area of health financing and social health protection for UHC
1 The high-level policy goal of universal health coverage and the rights-based social health protection frameworkThe COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of the importance of a social safety net in all countries, including for health. This increased...
Zambia gets additional financial support of $24 Million to procure and equitably distribute COVID-19 Vaccines
The government of Zambia has been approved to get additional financing of $24 million to acquire and equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines. Of the total amount, $14 million is credit provided by the International Development Association (IDA), and $10 million is...
Development research project for health policies in Burkina Faso
The overall development objective of this PRD is to help improve public health policies in Burkina Faso. Its specific aim is to strengthen the institutionalization of quality evaluation practice in the healthcare sector. To this end, the project's main research...
Mali: Reproductive health and family planning budgeting workshop
The National Observatory for the Demographic Dividend (ONDD) and its technical and financial partners held a two-day workshop on budgeting for reproductive health and family planning. The aim of this meeting is to make the integration of RH/FP into national...
Fighting HIV/AIDS in Cameroon: A plea for a reduction in household costs
The Director of Onusida in Cameroon deplores the fact that 70% of payments for HIV/AIDS-related services are still borne by households. This poses a real problem of access to care for vulnerable people. However, the elimination of fees for HIV-AIDS services, which had...
COVID-19, poverty, and social safety net response in Zambia
What has the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic been on poverty in Zambia, and how can social protection programs mitigate these effects? This paper estimates the pre-pandemic poverty level in Zambia and then simulates the distributional impact of COVID-19 in the...
Review of health financing, expenditure and service delivery in Zambia
Ensuring adequate access to quality health services, whether preventative or curative, is critical for a country to ensure that its population attain better health outcomes. In this context, universal health coverage (UHC), embedded within sustainable development...