Thai cabinet approved 209 billion for the UCS budget in the fiscal year 2023
The Thai cabinet has approved 209 billion baht for the Universal Coverage Scheme in the fiscal year 2023, which increases by 4.12% from the previous year. The newly added services are mainly related to COVID-19, such as expenses for RT-PCR tests, antigen test...
New document on out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh is now available
This study aimed to examine the burden of out-of-pocket payment and forgone healthcare in Bangladesh, and further explores the inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and forgone healthcare at the national and sub-national levels. Data came from the...
New document on Thailand’s universal health coverage is now available
Despite its low gross national income per capita in Thailand, a bold decision was made to use general taxation to finance the Universal Health Coverage Scheme without relying on contributions from members. Thailand’s health development since the 1970s, focusing on...
President Koroma launches social health insurance scheme
The president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma launched the Sierra Leone Social Health Insurance Scheme(SLeSHI) on Friday, 16 February. The scheme is meant to provide Universal Healthcare Coverage for all and sundry across the country. While...
Côte d’Ivoire: Towards the extension of CMU to farmers
Under the impetus of the Programme d'Appui aux Stratégies Sociales (PASS), the initiative for social protection in rural areas (iPS-MR) has set up a high-level cross-sectoral cooperation through an innovative public-private partnership involving the NOVARTIS Group....
Health coverage for workers in Egypt
This study explains the healthcare coverage that Egyptian employees receive based on formal employment. The paper details the legislative, institutional and technical aspects relevant to various occupational healthcare (OCH) services in Egypt, emphasizing the central...
Healthcare financing in Egypt: a systematic literature review
The Egyptian healthcare system has multiple stakeholders, including a wide range of public and private healthcare providers and several financing agents. This study sheds light on the healthcare system’s financing mechanisms and the flow of funds in Egypt. It also...
Health Financing Strategy of the new SHI in Egypt
Egypt has a strong commitment to universal health care (UHC). Article 18 of the Egyptian Constitution says that the State shall establish a comprehensive health insurance system covering all diseases for all Egyptians. This PowerPoint (2016) presentation by the...
Health financing policy reforms for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA)- Health Community Region
This research paper discusses the evolution of health financing reforms in the selected regions of Africa. From the provision of free primary health care to introduction of user fees at the point of use in response to low economic growth, large informal sector,...
Côte d’Ivoire-Knowledge sharing: Workshop on the use of Performance-Based Financing (PBF) for Universal Health Coverage
Event Time : 10 Feb 2022 8:00 am to 11 Feb 2022 2:40 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : No
South Africa donates two million J&J COVID-19 jabs to other African countries
The government of South Africa pledged to donate over two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines worth USD 19.2 million to other African countries in December, 2021. The pledge proceeded the signing of an agreement with the African Vaccination...
COVID-19: African Union (AU) seals deal with Moderna for 110 million vaccines
In October, 2021 Moderna announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to make up to 110 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine available to the AU. The company in a statement said it was preparing to deliver the first 15 million doses in the fourth quarter...
Hemodialysis is now included under the health benefit package of Thailand’s UCS
To reduce financial burden among hemodialysis patients, the National Health Security Board, a governing body of the Universal Coverage Scheme, has endorsed a proposal to reimburse patients with chronic kidney failure who opt for hemodialysis instead of peritoneal...
Issuance of the amended system of the civil health insurance system in the Official Gazette, Jordan
The amended civil health insurance system for the year 2022 was issued in the Official Gazette of Jordan which reads with the original Regulation No. 83 of 2004. In the amended system, it was mentioned that the beneficiaries are divided into two groups, the first...
Number of subscribers in health insurance system in Jordan stands at 3.490m
The Jordanian government has introduced an amended version of the Health Insurance Bylaw aimed to realise justice and equality among subscribers, Nael Adwan, head of the Civil Health Insurance Directorate, said on Monday. In an interview with the Jordan News Agency,...