Household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in India
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in India have assumed significant proportions in contributing to the overall disease burden over the past 30 years. In 2017, NCDs accounted for 63.7% of all mortality and was a major contributor to the cost of treatment for inpatient...
Burkina Faso: Over a billion euros to finance scientific research projects
The Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Pr Alkassoum Maïga, presided over a ceremony this Tuesday, May 18, 2021, to present checks to 43 research project holders. The funding, amounting to 1.6 billion CFA francs, will be used to find...
CSU in Senegal: a plea for gender and equality
This May 31, 2021 saw the opening of a thematic webinar dialogue of African parliamentarians on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and gender equality. Senegal's parliamentary network on population...
Burkina Faso: a health mutual enrolls a hundred sickle-cell-affected children
In the absence of a national program to combat sickle cell anemia, the " Project to support the fight against sickle cell disease in Burkina Faso "The project was carried out by the consortium of the Ministry of Health, CID/Burkina and GIH, with financial...
Gabon: CNAMGS committed to reducing medical evacuations
Reduce medical evacuations for children's urological surgery. This is the ultimate goal of the medical-surgical caravan for the care of children with urological pathologies, held from May 24 to 29 at the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Fondation Jeanne Ebori in...
WHO is looking for a Consultant in Health Financing in Namibia
WHO/AFRO is looking for a Consultant to support the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Health Financing Strategies in the context of UHC Contract duration: 5 months In line with the UHC Policy Framework, the WHO Global Programme of Work (GPW)...
Learning Brief No.7 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Stakeholder engagement
Learning Brief No.8 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Incentivizing private provision of Primary Health Care in a remote area (Initial Phase)
Learning Brief No.9 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Adding hospital-based child delivery care services to the benefit package
A 2018 assessment on UHC progress in Myanmar
Progress towards universal health coverage in Myanmar: a national and subnational assessment The article was published in The Lancet in 2018. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30318-8/fulltext
A guideline issued for a COVID-19 vaccine side effects fund
Thailand's National Health Security Office (NHSO) issues a guideline for compensation claims of COVID-19 vaccine recipients who experience adverse effects. Only the Thai recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine provided by the government are eligible to submit...
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Health Insurance Claims for High-Burden Diseases in the Philippines
Abstract In the Philippines, anecdotes on the dwindling use of essential healthcare services as an indirect consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic are mounting, but compelling evidence remains scarce. In this study, we examined the magnitude of decline in insurance...
Covid-related insurance claims could hit 3bn baht as cases continue to rise
Thai General Insurance Association (TGIA) said that the total amount of Covid-19 insurance premiums received as of May 15 stood at 3.5 billion baht from 9 million policies. This could lead total claims from Covid-19 insurance to soar to 3 billion baht this year...
New Report on Indonesian Health Financing and Social Health Protection available
We are pleased to draw your attention to a submission to our Indonesia Country page on maximizing the participation of private midwives in the National Health Insurance (JKN) Scheme . The report, and associated brief, explore the challenges of bringing more...
Indonesia’s COVID-19 vaccine drive gets a shot in the arm with private sector plan
Private sector companies in Indonesia began inoculating employees against COVID-19 with a paid-for vaccine plan aimed at boosting productivity and accelerating the government’s free, nationwide vaccination drive. Registered private companies are allowed to...