Timor-Leste received today 52,850 more vaccines from Australia
In July 8th Timor-Leste receives 40,000 additional AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Australia. In total, Australia has already supplied 175,000 vaccines to Timor-Leste. Australia has committed to provide Timor-Leste with sufficient doses of...
Public-private clinics partnership for COVID-19 home isolation implements in Thailand
Thai National Health Security Office has covered the cost of services under the home isolation program provided by the private clinic: 1,000 baht per case for meals and health services and 1,100 baht for medical devices such as a digital thermometer and a...
Nepal receives 230,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from Bhutan
Nepal receives 230,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from Bhutan. Bhutan has surplus vaccine doses after inoculating more than 90 percent of its eligible population. Thus, Nepal had written to Bhutan for vaccine support on a reciprocal condition; Nepal...
COVID-19 lockdown in Laos extended till Aug. 18
Lao government has extended lockdown measures nationwide to Aug. 18 due to a rise of COVID-19 cases. The National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Tuesday reported 237 new imported cases and 13 locally...
Maldives’ government requires all employees to be inoculated
Maldives' government requires all government employees to get vaccinated before August 15 on Tuesday in order to control the spread of COVID-19 and the community-wide inoculation program had made progress towards achieving a new normal. The government...
Maldives vaccinates 50% of eligible population
Maldives has vaccinated 50 per cent of the total population; 320,059 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 251,232 people have received the second doses. Maldives has started the vaccination program since...
Malaysia announces new threshold measurement indicator to move between phases 1 and 2 of the National Recovery plan
Malaysia government announces new symptomatic Covid-19 infections as an indicator for the National Recovery Plan (NRP). The threshold will be no more than 2,000 symptomatic cases requiring hospitalisation in order to move from Phase One to Phase Two of the...
Brunei extends its vaccination centre operating hours, aims to vaccinate at least 70% of population
Brunei has extended an operating hours of vaccination centre under the national Covid-19 vaccination programme to 8pm, starting from August 2, aiming to reach target of 70 percent of vaccination population. The extend hours...
Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments
Australia provides the COVID-19 Disaster Payment divided into three different rates based on the number of hours of work lost by an eligible recipient and whether or not they are receiving an income support payment: $200 per week for those in receipt of an...
Webinar Series 1: Health Financing for UHC in India
Please click here to Register and joint us on Wednesday August 18! P4H, in collaboration with Access Health International and India Health Systems Collaborative, India, is organising a webinar series on Health Financing in India. The first webinar on Health...
Sharing experiences from the “One plan – One budget – One report” initiative
Oromia State Health Bureau recently shared experiences and lessons learned from the "One plan – One budget – One report" initiative with a delegation from the Central African Republic. The initiative was introduced to guide the harmonization and...
Indonesia to give Covid-19 booster shots to health workers next week
Indonesia plans to provide the third doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 1.47 million health care workers throughout the nation due to concerning of health workers having a high risk of contracting coronavirus. For more information, please click. Source:...
Bhutan’s Vaccination Program Scales New Heights
Bhutan has reach 90 percent of vaccination of adults population. Although Bhutan's small population would help for achieving the fast vaccination coverage, the country also benefited from strong and effective messaging from top officials and an established...
Bangladesh borrows $940M for COVID-19
Bangladesh borrows $940 M from external loan to finance vaccine purchase, aiming to enhance COVID-19 vaccine coverage. This loan will be used for purchasing 44.7M coronavirus vaccine doses which could vaccinate more than 20 million people. The...
New article on evaluation of health systems equity in Indonesia now available in documents section
Universal health coverage (UHC) improves the equity of the health system. With UHC, the poor and vulnerable populations could access quality and essential health care without financial barriers or the risk of catastrophic health expenditure. To close equity gaps,...