Social mutuality in the UEMOA region: Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali share experiences
From December 8 to 15, 2021, a study tour will take place to set up the instruments for implementing the WAEMU Regulation on the regulation of social mutual societies (Administrative Body of Social Mutual Societies and National Guarantee Fund for Social Mutual...
UHC day in Myanmar
UHC day is a venue when countries and partners reaffirm their commitment to UHC. UHC advocates in Myanmar also join this important global movement every year. To assist partners in Myanmar prepare for the coming UHC day using consistent and focused messages, P4H...
Oman’s health endowment fund’s remit transcends COVID-19 fight
In the week since it was rolled out, Oman’s first endowment fund dedicated to public healthcare services has garnered several millions of Omani riyals in contributions from government, public and private sector organisations, and growing numbers of individuals as...
CANAM Mali: The 2022 budget amounts to more than 87 billion FCFA
On Thursday November 25, 2021, the Conseil national du Patronat du Mali (CNPM) hosted the opening ceremony of the 23rd ordinary session of the Board of Directors of the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CANAM). In his opening speech, the Chairman of the Caisse's...
Compulsory health insurance in Benin: in the face of concerns, the Government reassures
From January 2022, health insurance will be compulsory for all Beninese. The subject has raised many questions, and the Minister of Health, Benjamin Hounkpatin, has given an interview to the national and international press in order to reassure them of the steps being...
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...