Financing – Africa’s pharmaceutical industry: ADB invests Cfa 1,764 billion
The African Development Bank (ADB) has decided to make available to Africa the sum of 3 billion dollars, or 1,764 billion CFA francs, to strengthen the African pharmaceutical industry. Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the AfDB. At a press conference in Dakar,...
Togo: FCFA 19 billion planned for universal health coverage in 2022
For this year, the Togolese government plans to devote 19 billion FCFA to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), according to official information. This represents 18% of the resources allocated to the Ministry of Health (which stand at 105.4 billion FCFA), according to the...
CSU in Burkina Faso: RAME makes the diagnosis
As part of the process of strengthening social mobilization to accelerate universal health coverage (UHC) in Burkina Faso that it has been undertaking since 2019, the Access to Essential Medicines Network (RAME) initiated a public conference this January 28, 2022. It...
MALI: RAMU now operational!
Since 2015, the Government of Mali has been engaged in a process that will make it possible to set up, from 2018, a social protection system against the risk of illness for the benefit of the entire Malian population. The introduction in 2009 of the Compulsory Health...
CANAM MALI: Ségou equips itself with an information system
In Ségou, the regional office has just been equipped with the Activ Premium software package, which has been adopted by CANAM. This new system is designed to provide AMO players and partners with a modern information system for fast, secure operations, dematerialize...
Documents on health financing and the health transformation plan in Iran now available
Presenting a group of five documents on reducing catastrophic health expenditure and out-of-pocket payments (OOP) and moving towards universal health coverage UHC) through the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran. One study is on a range of factors that...
China increases accessibility to rare disease treatment
China moves closer to the dream of Universal Health Coverage by improving the access to rare disease treatment by inclusion of rare disease medicines in the medicare reimbursement list. The National Medical Product Administration prioritizes the rare disease...
Duty charged from harmful substances to health to go to Public Health Fund in Maldives
In Maldives, the Public Health Fund has been established under the Public Health Protection Act as a source of finance for public health related purposes. Currently, Public Health Fund Regulation has been enacted. Following the regulation, fines charged under...
Korean government’s plan for at-home treatment
General information At-home treatment is one of the basic, often default, COVID-19 treatment options in major countries around the world. In Korea, the need to add an at-home treatment system has continuously been raised, especially for low-risk patients,...
Korean government announces MOHW’s New Year Plan for 2022
Key Points in the Action Plan 2022 1. A Safe Healthcare and Medical System establishment The Ministry of Health and Welfare will open a new central infectious disease hospital from 2022 to 2026, assign 757 regular employees and provide part-timers for...
A Randomised Controlled Trial to assess the effect of health insurance in India presents interesting findings
A large RCT of hospital insurance for above poverty line Indian households was conducted to assess the access and utilisation of health insurance and its impact on health outcomes in India. The study suggests that access to insurance increased enrolment which...
‘More health for the money’: An interesting take on value-based healthcare
Nachiket Mor, the visiting scientist at The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, highlights the need to ensure maximum value for the Rupee spent by the consumer. He argues that the Indian government spends 1.25% of GDP on Health, which however insufficient,...
Redistribution and the health financing transition
In this paper, Ajay Tandon and K Srinath Reddy build the case for public financing as absolutely essential for realising the UHC dream. They focus on the argument that UHC is also intrinsically about a policy direction that emphasises at its core redistribution of...
Chad: Recruitment process of a DG and a DGA for the Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Santé, Dec. 2021- Feb. 2022
In December 2021, Chad launched the recruitment process for the staff of the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Santé, a crucial stage in the effective establishment of the Fund and the operationalization of the CSU schemes. The planned recruitment concerns nine (09)...
Chad: Workshop to draw up the draft decree defining the AMED health care basket, Mara 9-12 Nov.2021
The Cellule Interministérielle de Coordination de la Stratégie Nationale de Couverture Santé Universelle organized from November 09 to 12, 2021 at the Centre d'Accueil et de Formation (CAF) de Mara, a workshop " de définition des paniers des soins du Dispositif...