Togo: INAM to manage the roll-out of Universal Health Insurance
The universal health insurance (AMU) project will be managed by the Institut national d'assurance maladie (INAM). So says the Togolese government, following its latest cabinet meeting on Saturday November 27. A decree was adopted during the council meeting, bringing...
Diabetes in Niger: A plea for access to care
" Access to care to fight diabetes ", this is the theme chosen for the 2021 commemoration of the International Diabetes Day. In Niamey, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) once again sacrificed itself to tradition, this time placing the...
Oman rolls out mandatory health insurance in private sector
Oman's Capital Market Authority (CMA) is currently drafting plans to introduce mandatory health insurance for all residents in the country after the Council of Ministers made recommendations to do so. “The decision aims at meeting the needs of the employees of the...
CSU au TCHAD: Promulgation of law n°026 creating the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAS)
On 31/12/2020, the Chadian National Assembly unanimously adopted the law creating the National Health Insurance Fund. This law was promulgated on the same day by the Head of State, the Marshal of Chad, Idriss Déby ITNO. Passage and promulgation of the...
Healthcare protection policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons towards the implementation of the new Egyptian universal health insurance law
This paper investigates the effects of Egypt’s health system’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic on the recently ratified social health insurance law (2018). It also provides lessons from the management of the first phase of the pandemic, lessons that could be...
COVID-19 response in Lebanon: current experience and challenges in a low-resource setting
This journal article gives insight into Lebanon’s healthcare response to the COVID 19 pandemic with limited financial resources and an increasingly private and urban health sector. It suggests that 80% of the health care budget in Lebanon is spent on acute care in...
Purchasing health services under Egypt’s new universal health insurance law: What are the implications for universal health coverage?
This paper provides an assessment of the purchasing arrangements in Egypt as stipulated by the universal health insurance law and bylaw, their implications and contribution to progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). There needs to be more legal clarity in...
Equity of healthcare financing: a progressivity analysis for Egypt
This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of healthcare financing in Egypt by assessing five financing sources, out-of-pocket payments, an earmarked cigarette tax, direct taxes, indirect taxes, social health insurance and private health insurance. It provides a...
Implementing the universal health insurance law of Egypt: what are the key issues on strategic purchasing and its governance arrangements?
This document aims to inform the universal health insurance law implementation process in Egypt by anticipating the strengths and possible challenges as well as developing options to support a shift towards more strategic purchasing. It suggests that it would be...
Social protection spending in Lebanon: A deep dive into state financing of social protection
This publication looks into government spending on social protection over the period between 2017 and 2020. In an effort to understand how social protection spending and financing is structured in Lebanon and who are its main beneficiaries, this budget spending review...
Rebuilding of the Lebanese health care system: health sector reforms
This paper outlines the initiatives taken by the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to finance the existing network of health services and create additional services since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1992. It describes the country’s health system in terms of...
Lebanon receives support for first COVID 19 vaccine rollout
Lebanon has received US$34 million under the World Bank's Lebanon Health Resilience Project to support vaccine procurement. The financing will provide vaccines for over 2 million individuals. The vaccines are expected to arrive in Lebanon by early February...
The Lebanese National Social Security Fund, explained
The National Social Security Fund was founded in 1963 under the (then joint) Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs via the Lebanese Social Security Law, with the aim of creating universal insurance. It is primarily funded by the contributions of private companies...
The Lebanese National Social Security Fund requests increased financing
The Lebanese National Social Security Fund (NSSF) serves a particularly important role in the wake of the current crisis engulfing the country, as medical bills have significantly inflated and even the most prominent hospitals are struggling to maintain their...
Lebanon health sector receives international support
Lebanon is recieving more than 1.7 million US dollars aimed at strengthening the health sector by enhancing its operational capacity to provide essential health services and to contribute to the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic through a UNOPS project funded...