Ministry of Health to revise public healthcare subsidy framework to benefit those with greater needs
From the middle of next year, means-tested public healthcare subsidy frameworks are set to be revised as government spending on patient subsidies is projected to hit S$6.5 billion in the 2020 financial year, up from S$4 billion five years before. The changes...
Eight lessons from the UHC2030 Related Initiatives
Only 0.3% of COVID-19 vaccinations so far are in low-income countries, while 90% of countries report disruptions to health services due to the pandemic. There is therefore an acute need to invest in health systems to support the ongoing...
The Impact of Covid 19 on Subnational GovernmentFinancing and Household Financial Risk Protection in Indonesia- Health PolicyPlus
The U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project conducted analyses to understand the impact of COVID-19 on subnational government budgets and households’ healthcare use and spending. This work was undertaken in support of the...
National Health Accounts Estimates for India 2015-16
This report provides healthcare expenditures in India based on National Health Accounts Guidelines for India, 2016 (with refinements where required) that adhere to System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011), a global standard framework for producing health accounts.
The Impact of Covid 19 on Subnational Government Financing and Household Financial Risk Protection in Indonesia
Covid 19 has exposed gaps in the budgetary allocations of the subnational governments in Indonesia that resulted in increase of out-pocket health expenditure and catastrophic household spending on health expenditure for health care...
Strengthening health financing response in COVID-19
The COVID-19 war and commitment towards UHC hinge on the criticality of designing strategic health financing policies in India. The pandemic provides the window of opportunity to reflect on our health financing objectives to strengthen the health system resilience and...
Household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in India
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in India have assumed significant proportions in contributing to the overall disease burden over the past 30 years. In 2017, NCDs accounted for 63.7% of all mortality and was a major contributor to the cost of treatment for inpatient...
Burkina Faso: Over a billion euros to finance scientific research projects
The Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Pr Alkassoum Maïga, presided over a ceremony this Tuesday, May 18, 2021, to present checks to 43 research project holders. The funding, amounting to 1.6 billion CFA francs, will be used to find...
Burkina Faso: a health mutual enrolls a hundred sickle-cell-affected children
In the absence of a national program to combat sickle cell anemia, the " Project to support the fight against sickle cell disease in Burkina Faso "The project was carried out by the consortium of the Ministry of Health, CID/Burkina and GIH, with financial...
Burkina Faso: a health mutual enrolls a hundred sickle-cell-affected children
In the absence of a national program to combat sickle cell anemia, the " Project to support the fight against sickle cell disease in Burkina Faso "The project was carried out by the consortium of the Ministry of Health, CID/Burkina and GIH, with financial...
CSU in Senegal: a plea for gender and equality
This May 31, 2021 saw the opening of a thematic webinar dialogue of African parliamentarians on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and gender equality. Senegal's parliamentary network on population...
Gabon: CNAMGS committed to reducing medical evacuations
Reduce medical evacuations for children's urological surgery. This is the ultimate goal of the medical-surgical caravan for the care of children with urological pathologies, held from May 24 to 29 at the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Fondation Jeanne Ebori in...
WHO is looking for a Consultant in Health Financing in Namibia
WHO/AFRO is looking for a Consultant to support the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Health Financing Strategies in the context of UHC Contract duration: 5 months In line with the UHC Policy Framework, the WHO Global Programme of Work (GPW)...
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Health Insurance Claims for High-Burden Diseases in the Philippines
In this study, CGDev examines the magnitude of decline in insurance claims of twelve (12) high-burden diseases and five (5) common procedures from 1,286 public and private hospitals. From March to September 2020, seasonally adjusted insurance claims declined by almost...
Project to create Niger’s National Institute for Medical Assistance (INAM)
INAM's dual public mission: 1. Implementation of the reform of free health care with a view to its gradual integration into Niger's CMU (Couverture Médicale Universelle) system currently under construction. 2. Delegated management by the State, local authorities and...