Stakeholder workshop on the institutional framework of the Medical Assistance Scheme (AMED) in Chad
The AMED scheme is one of the three schemes provided for in the CSU Law, and Chad plans to start implementing the Health Insurance Scheme through the AMED scheme. As part of the process of making the AMED scheme operational, Chad asked the P4H network for support in...
Comprehensive review of the social protection system and support for the implementation of the SNPS in Senegal
In 2015, Senegal revised its National Social Protection Strategy (SNPS) with the vision of. set up a national social protection system that is inclusive and accessible to all. With this in mind, Senegal intends to gradually build a universal social protection...
Domestic expenditure increases a 33% in 2020 due to Covid
The Budget Execution Report, released on February 15th, shows a relevant increase in domestic expenditure in health in Mozambique, from 18.985 million MT (263 M$) to 25.318 million MT (351 M$), a +33% change. This prioritization of health with domestic...
Визит CNAMU в Министерство здравоохранения: обсуждались задачи AMU
Вновь вступивший в должность министр здравоохранения начал серию обсуждений со своими сотрудниками. К ним относится ЦНАМУ. Делегация Caisse d'assurance maladie universelle во главе с генеральным директором учреждения посетила сайт нового обладателя министерского...
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...
CNAMU visit to the Ministry of Health: AMU’s objectives discussed
The newly-installed Minister of Health has begun a series of discussions with his staff. These include CNAMU. A delegation from the Caisse d'assurance maladie universelle, led by the institution's General Manager, paid a visit to the new tenant of the ministerial...
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...