The Philippines will release a New Benefit Package for Covid-19 Patients under Home Quarantine
The Department of Health and the Philippines Health Insurance Corporation (commonly known as PhilHealth) has formulated a new home care benefit package for Covid 19 patients that will include "cost mechanisms", among others. The "holistic" home care...
Ukraine is planning to launch a health insurance system in 2023
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed the Government to develop a health insurance model of health care, the introduction of which was promised in his election program. According to the orders given by the President, the Law on Health Insurance should be...
Russia has reformed its mandatory health insurance system to improve governance and clarify responsibilities of stakeholders
Russian Federation has enforced a Law on the Reform of the Mandatory Health Insurance (MHI) System since January of this year. The document enabled the transfer of the powers of insurers in controlling and financing of medical care to the Federal office of the...
Uzbekistan is to localize the production of SPUTNIK V vaccine to maximize population coverage
On April 1, a campaign to vaccinate the population against the COVID-19 was launched in Uzbekistan. Uzbeks started the vaccination campaign with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and a recombinant drug from the Chinese Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutica. Last...
Burkina Faso: free food policy reviewed
In collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and a team of local consultants at RESADE, ThinkWell carried out a detailed review of the free-of-charge policy. This review is part of ThinkWell's Strategic Purchasing for Primary Healthcare (SP4PHC) project to...
Australia’s Medicare Benefit Schedule changes form 1 July 2021
From July 1 this year, more than 900 Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for rebates for private surgery are set to change as part of the MBS Review of all 5,700 Medicare rebates. The latest changes will affect rebates for orthopaedic surgery, general surgery...
WHO welcomes the establishment of Viet Nam’s National Medical Council
https://www.who.int/vietnam/news/detail/19-05-2021-who-welcomes-the-establishment-of-viet-nam-s-national-medical-council (Photo:VNA, January 15, 2021)
PM calls for action to control Covid-19 and ensure social security
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?ItemID=9870&CateID=198
Free health care in Burkina Faso: an analysis
Since 2016, Burkina Faso has introduced a policy of free healthcare for pregnant women and children under five. ThinkWell and its research partner RESADE have conducted a detailed analysis of the free healthcare policy in collaboration with the Ministry of...
Niger: Validation and alignment of the national CSU strategy
On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, the workshop for consistency, consolidation and validation of the national strategy for universal health coverage (UHC) opened in the meeting room of the NGO LIBO in Liboré. The meeting, which lasted four (4) days, was organized by the DEP of...
Senegal: Explanations for the rise in the price of medicines and nutritional supplements
Since May 24, pharmaceutical news has been marked by a pricing change for a category of products with hybrid status, half-drug and half-nutritional supplement. This increase follows a reclassification in the customs nomenclature of this category of products,...
Bangladesh’s Health Budget during the Pandemic
Bangladesh has had less than 1% share of the annual budget for the health sector for over a decade now. The Covid 19 crisis has only made it more important to invest more in health services, infrastructure and personnel. This opinion piece by Dr Fahmida Khatun gives...
Niger: Restitution of the I3S project and presentation of INAM
A number of players were in conclave on May 19, 2021 at Centre International des Conférences Mahatma Gandhi in Niamey. For this reason, they took part in the restitution workshop of the Initiative Solidarité Santé Sahel (I3S) project, followed by the...
Senegal: Data analysis workshop as part of the study on catastrophic healthcare expenditure 2014-2019
In Thiès, where the workshop was held, the aim was to analyze secondary data following the methodology adopted in the 2014-2019 Catastrophic Health Expenditure Study . More specifically, the work involved : share the methodological orientation report (ROM) for...
Meeting of the technical committee for the evaluation of the CMU program
It was held in virtual mode on May 19 and covered the following two items : pre-validation of the report on basic CMU through mutual health insurance ; pre-validation of the report on the link between the CMU program and other health...