Health insurance now compulsory in Benin
In January 2021, Benin's deputies, in their review of Law 2020-37 on the protection of personal health in the Republic of Benin, created a third chapter comprising three articles on compulsory health insurance. Article 16 of this new chapter stipulates that health...
ARCH to drive health insurance in Benin
The phase of the generalization of the health insurance component of the Assurance pour le renforcement du capital humain (Arch) project in the commune of Cotonou has been officially launched. The pilot phase of the health insurance component of the Arch project...
Healthcare fraud: insurers in the age of anticipation with Big Data
According to Gilles Le Vavasseur , Director of Operations at group broker Génération, the nature of health insurance fraud is fairly standard: forged or doctored prescriptions, misappropriation of the lump sum for lenses to supplement reimbursement of frames -...
100 million to finance the acquisition of Covid vaccines in Tunisia
In a joint statement, WHO and UNICEF announce that to date (10/02/2021), almost 130 countries, representing 2.5 billion people, have not yet administered a single dose. Tunisia is on its way out of this hole with a loan of several tens of millions of...
Mental health: Financing prevention or paying dearly for lack of investment
Underfunding mental health could be very costly. The UN Secretary General sounds the alarm on World Mental Health Day. Several months later, the situation remains the same: mental health still receives less than 1% of international health aid. This lack of investment...
Health and scientific research in the crosshairs of crowdfunding
Donations on participatory funding platforms more than doubled last year, boosted according to a study by an unprecedented movement of solidarity, particularly towards healthcare professionals in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Donations peaked at...
Review of Vietnam Social Security’s (VSS) actuarial analysis models and capacity of health insurance benefits
The key stakeholders in Vietnam have identified gaps in their current management, legal documents, operational regulations and technical capacity to conduct actuarial analysis and in the use of the results in policy making and implementation of health...
ILO-WHO-WB’s joint technical note on the additional benefit package of social health insurance in Viet Nam
As part of the process of the Health Insurance Law revision, the Government of Viet Nam is currently identifying the core social health insurance (SHI) policies to be reformed and defining alternative options. Resolution 20 of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, dated 25...
SENEGAL: Adoption of a protocol to review strategic purchasing mechanisms
On January 11, a videoconference workshop was held to validate the protocol of the study on the review of existing strategic purchasing mechanisms implemented by the Group. implemented in Senegal. The aim is to validate the said protocol with a view to drawing up...
SENEGAL: Adoption of a protocol to review strategic purchasing mechanisms
On January 11, a videoconference workshop was held to validate the protocol of the study on the review of existing strategic purchasing mechanisms implemented by the Group. implemented in Senegal. The aim is to validate the said protocol with a view to drawing up...
Senegal examines catastrophic healthcare spending between 2014 and 2019
Senegal organized 48 hours of exchanges with the aim of drawing up the Terms of Reference for a study on catastrophic healthcare expenditure over the period 2014-2019. January 13 and 14 were decisive for the experts invited to these exchanges. Around...
Сенегал рассматривает катастрофические расходы на здравоохранение в период с 2014 по 2019 год
Сенегал организовал 48-часовые дискуссии с целью разработки технического задания для исследования катастрофических расходов на здравоохранение в период 2014-2019 гг. 13 и 14 января стали решающими для экспертов, приглашенных на эти дискуссии. Вокруг...
Burkina Faso draws up a new national health development plan
The Minister of Health, Pr Charlemagne Ouédraogo, has officially launched the process of drawing up the new National Health Development Plan (PNDS-2021-2030). A new ten-year plan in which the alignment of technical and financial partners is one of the key objectives....
Mali, Compulsory health insurance (AMO): A new list of medicines will soon be available
On January 18, 2020, a workshop was held in the Malian capital to validate the new list of medicines and medical devices covered by the Compulsory Health Insurance (AMO) scheme in private pharmacies. The general objective of this meeting is to validate the...
Burkina Faso’s CNAMU and Togo’s INAM draw inspiration from best practice
Drawing inspiration from the Togolese health insurance model was the main objective of a mission from Burkina Faso's Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie universelle (CNAMU), which visited in Togo in December 2020. The CNAMU delegation learned from the...