Malawi : Stakeholders call for taxes to support health services
In June, 2021 stakeholders in the health sector engaged the parliamentary committee on health to lobby for more funding to the sector to ensure that health facilities are equipped with adequate drugs and other medical items, personnel and infrastructure. The Malawi...
Gambia: “The 2020 national health insurance bill (NHIB) seeks to fulfil right to health care services” says Minister Samateh
In the quest to ensure financial risk protection and equal access to health services and hence achieve universal health coverage, the Gambia government initiated the introduction of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in 2020. The minister of health Dr. Ahmad...
Ethiopia first country to pilot the latest version of the WHO’s Health Financing Progress Matrix
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), developed by WHO’s Department of Health Systems Governance & Financing, assesses country health financing systems against a set of evidence-based benchmarks. The WHO developed and released version 2 of the HFPM in late...
5th Meeting of the Montreux Collaborative on Fiscal Space, Public Financial Management and Health Financing
Meeting background: Since 2014 WHO has convened the Montreux Collaborative bi-annual meeting bringing together experts and partners to discuss the critical relationship between fiscal space, public financial management (PFM) and health financing towards advancing...
Viet Nam Social Security staff trained to better understand and respond to health insurance members’ needs
https://ilo.org/hanoi/Informationresources/Publicinformation/newsitems/WCMS_823245/lang--en/index.htm
The Healthcare Law Review: Vietnam
https://thelawreviews.co.uk/title/the-healthcare-law-review/vietnam
BURKINA FASO: How to finance healthcare systems in West Africa?
How to finance healthcare systems in West Africa? The question was at the heart of a virtual round table on financing healthcare systems in West Africa. The organizer, Gilles Yabi, head of the Wathi think tank, , believes that the issue of...
Workshop to develop the framework for the National Platform for Coordination of Health Financing (PNCFS)
Workshop to develop the framework for the national health financing coordination platform from September 15 to 17, 2021 in Yamoussoukro. Event Time : 15 Sep 2021 6:00 am to 17 Sep 2021 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : No
TOGO-AMU: Parliament adopts draft law
On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, the Togolese Parliament unanimously adopted the bill instituting universal health insurance in Togo. This adoption marks a new stage in the realization of Togo's ambition for universal health coverage, almost ten years after the...
TOGO-INAM: Winner of the ISSA Best Practices Award
The Institut National d'Assurance Maladie (INAM) received this Tuesday, October 05, 2021, the Certificate of Merit with Special Mention at the ISSA 2020 Good Practice Award for Africa. This distinction was awarded to by the International Social Security...
BENIN: Free FP, a relief for the indigent fund
In 2005, the Beninese government set up the Indigent Health Fund to facilitate access to healthcare for the underprivileged. In the field, family planning appears as a means of reducing expenditure on this Fund. Free access to FP services to reduce...
COTE d’IVOIRE: The national platform for coordinating health financing sets up a working framework
A workshop was held in Yamoussoukro to develop a framework for the National Platform for the Coordination of Health Financing. This platform is intended as a forum for exchange, with the remit of establishing consensus on healthcare expenditure targets, ensuring the...
Universal Health Coverage: Case Study of Israel’s managed care model
Israel has a long-standing commitment to universal health coverage through government and non-governmental organizations. The country’s National Health Insurance System (NHIS) covers all permanent residents, accounting for 98% of its resident population. Even...
New Israel health financing/social health protection documents available
We are pleased to draw your attention to four new reports and journal papers on our Israel country page. Three peer-reviewed papers discuss Israel’s public-private partnership in delivering health care services in the presence of the National Health Insurance Law...
Sudan receives over 350,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines
On 11 September, 2021 Sudan received a shipment of 357,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Germany. This marks the fourth shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses Sudan has received since March 2021. Previously, the country received over one million doses...