Bhutan considering third dose of Covid-19 vaccine booster next year
Bhutan considers a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccines next year due to Delta variant concerns. Bhutan has achieved full vaccination for over 95 percent of the population aged 18 years or over. Currently, Bhutan starts inoculating children aged between 12 to...
Indonesia reaches 100 million Covid vaccine doses
Indonesia has administered 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Over 23% of the Indonesian population have received at least their first dose, while about 13% are fully vaccinated. According to Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, Indonesia has been ranked as the...
In Brunei, more than half of population received at least one dose of vaccine
In Brunei, COVID-19 vaccines have been administered with at least one dose, accounting for 51.1 percent of the country’s population or 231,613 individuals while 21.2 percent or 96,212 people have completed the inoculation. The Brunei government officially...
Bangladesh steps up efforts to open schools and colleges
Bangladesh has push efforts to inoculate teachers, support staff in schools and colleges as well as their families, aiming to resume physical classes in educational institutions in the coming weeks. To curb the pandemic, the Bangladesh government is taking steps to...
Sri Lanka plans to vaccinate people age between 20-30-year
Sri Lanka plans to inoculate people aged between 20 and 30 years or 3.5 million people at district level. Eight million doses of vaccine which are expected to arrive in September will be used for the inoculation. Currently, prioritization is given to people in this...
Malaysia examines need for booster shots as virus spreads
Malaysia now considers giving booster Covid-19 vaccine shots due to the fast-spreading delta variant. An expert committee has been set up to conduct the need assessment for a third shot and the recommendation is expected to be given by the end of September. 46% of...
PhilHealth now covers home isolation of mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced a health benefits package to cover home isolation of mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients. The COVID-19 Home Isolation Benefit Package (CHIBP) can help free up hospital beds for COVID-19 patients...
Singapore provides additional subsidies to Child Development Account in September
Singapore provides a top-up of $200 to all Singaporean children aged between 0 and 6 years in 2021. The top-up will be added to their Child Development Account (CDA) from mid-Sep 2021. Approximately 250,000 children will receive this benefit. This top-up is part...
Four orphan drugs added to the national drug list in Thailand
Financial protection is one of the UHC goals. Health financing reforms aim to protect people from financial hardships associated with the use of health services and products. In many countries, medicine largely contributes to out-of-pocket payments that cause...
The P4H Coordination Desk is looking for an India KM/Health Financing Consultant
The individual consultant will participate in the knowledge management workstream of the P4H network workplan. His / her functions will include the documentation of health financing and social health protection reforms and processes through the P4H digital platform....
COVID-19 vaccines, medicines, test kits added in Thailand Universal Coverage Scheme
In Thailand, the National Health Security Board has approved new benefits packages under the Universal Coverage Scheme that consist of COVID-19 vaccines, medicines, test kits, and medical supplies. The new benefits packages enable the National...
Support for frontline workers urgently needed in Viet Nam
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Promoting solutions to develop participants of social and health insurance in the last months of the year
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Eswatini COVID-19 response gets a boost
The Kingdom of Eswatini’s response to COVID-19 got a boost following the approval of US$5 million loan in additional financing on the 16th of April, 2021. The added funds were expected to assist the Government of Eswatini accelerate its ongoing efforts to purchase and...
Universal health coverage (UHC) in the Kingdom of Eswatini: Leaving no one behind
The Kingdom of Eswatini is working towards achieving UHC as highlighted in the national health policy 2018 and the national health sector strategic plan 2014-2018. A country is said to have attained UHC when all people and communities have access to quality and...