Nepal expanded health services in villages
Universal health coverage can be reached when all people can access quality health services. Nepal allocated the budget to establish new health centers, aiming to increase access to health care for the people living in the remote villages. To read more, please click...
Brunei started administering the second dose to adolescents
Vaccination is an important public health measure against COVID-19 pandemic. It is necessary to allocate budget and resources to support vaccine administration to all age groups, including adolescents. To read more, please click here. Source: Borneo...
8% of the population in Honduras has no access to health care
In Honduras there is a health system integrated by the public and private sectors. The public sector is composed of the Ministry of Health (financed with resources from the national budget), which provides services to 60% of the population, and the Honduran...
Thai Universal Health Coverage Scheme increased budget to expand HIV/AIDS related services
Ensuring access to comprehensive and quality health care is one of the key policy objectives in Thailand. Since 2005, HIV/AIDS related health services have been included in Universal Health Coverage Scheme (UCS)’s benefit package. Over 17 years, the benefit package...
Launch of the global monitoring reports “Tracking Universal Coverage – 2021 Global Monitoring Report” and “Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2021”
The event presents key findings from the upcoming Global Monitoring Reports on UHC and Financial Protection 2021, which include new estimates of global and regional pre-pandemic trends in essential health service coverage and financial hardship, a conceptual framework...
Kazakhstan’s experience in COVID-19 management was presented to European ministers of health
Vice Minister of Healthcare and Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Kazakhstan Yerlan Kiyasov shared Kazakhstan's experience in an online meeting on "The situation with COVID-19 in the European Region: analysis of lessons learned and further actions", organized by the WHO...
Russian Ministry of Healthcare is expanding coverage and access to medicines under Medicines-2025 strategy
Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko held a meeting of the Board of the Ministry on provision of medicines. This committee regularly meets to ensure population access and coverage of medicines, including regularly expanding the list of...
Mongolian Rural Healthcare embraced UpToDate national app for clinical decision support
The State Policy on Health of Mongolia for 2017-2026 aims to mainstream universal health care and bring the quality of health care in the country to international standards. In 2021 the Ministry of Health, with support from Wolters Kluwer Health, introduced a...
Pricing the national health insurance scheme in Qatar – opportunities and challenges
In 2013, the Kingdom of Qatar introduced a national health insurance scheme called ‘Seha’. It is regulated by the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) through the country’s National Health Insurance Company. This paper outlines the SHC’s health insurance pricing approach...
Demand for health services rises in Qatar
This article from the Health chapter of The Report: Qatar 2020, lays out the structure of the health system in Qatar and its focus on public investment that has improved access to and demand for health services. It provides an assessment of the Ministry of Public...
Mozambique to review health taxes in view of rising NCD prevalence
The Mozambican Ministry of Finance is preparing a reform of the Specific Consumption Tax (ICE),which includes taxes on tobacco, alcohol, sugar-sweetened beverages, cars, and other consumption goods. The country operates in the SADC tax harmonization framework,...
Vaccination against COVID with a booster dose is rolled out in Uzbekistan
Voluntary vaccination with a booster dose (revaccination with a single-component) against coronavirus is being rolled out in Uzbekistan. "In accordance with the instructions of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in order to boost the...
Europe’s expertise in COVID-19 contact tracing well utilized in Kyrgyzstan
WHO/Europe has been collecting and sharing best practices in contact tracing from countries of the WHO European Region and documenting a variety of approaches to develop case studies and to contribute to future guidelines and recommendations. Dr Richard Pebody,...
More than 100 000 Estonians received a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose
Over 100 thousand Estonian citizens received at least one booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine. This was stated in the press service of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the country. "In Estonia, at least one booster dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 was...
WHO-facilitated access to European reference labs was vital in confirming COVID-19 cases
According to WHO/Europe news, throughout the pandemic, WHO reference laboratories have played a vital role in the confirmation of COVID-19 cases. They are mainly used when countries do not have the capacity to do all the testing they need themselves and when...