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Sri Lanka’s health financing challenge: Why smarter spending is key

Sri Lanka’s health financing challenge: Why smarter spending is key

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s public health spending as a share of GDP, at around 1.5 per cent, is low by international standards. This is compounded by inefficiencies in fund administration and allocation. A related problem is the lack of a proper system to forecast financial...

Health spending increases its share in the budget

Mozambique

The budgetary relevance given to the health sector in 2020 has led the increase in its relative weight in comparison with other sectors. The health sector represented a 14,8% of public spending in 2020, or 19% if measured taking out the financial operations and debt...

CMU in Senegal: Saint-Louis scores well

CMU in Senegal: Saint-Louis scores well

Senegal

After 5 years of universal health coverage in Senegal, the Saint-Louis region has 163,756 people enrolled in mutual health insurance schemes. The program's progress can also be seen in the financing of the regional healthcare system. It should be noted that in 2020, a...

Medical insurance to be expanded for family use

Medical insurance to be expanded for family use

China

China has expanded medical insurance accounts to cover their immediate family members: spouses, parents, and children. They will be able to use the personal account of the insured. Previously, only insured employees can use their personal accounts to...

Casual workers clamor for better insurance coverage

Casual workers clamor for better insurance coverage

China

The lackluster insurance coverage of casual workers attracted the attention of Premier Li Keqiang during the annual gathering of the nation's highest legislative body in March. Without work injury insurance, casual workers who suffer injuries face an uphill...

WHO is looking for a Consultant in Health Financing

WHO published, on 05 May 2021, a request for proposals for a Consultant to work on strategic purchasing and digital technologies for health financing The Request for proposals is published on the United Nations Global Market website:...

Fighting malaria in Burkina Faso: free treatment alone is not enough!

Fighting malaria in Burkina Faso: free treatment alone is not enough!

Burkina Faso

Measures are being taken by the government to facilitate access to care for patients. The aim is to eliminate the disease by the end of 2030. How are these measures perceived by the local population, and what is their assessment of the measures put in place ? A...

Габон: CANAMGS вводит в действие карту здоровья

Габон: CANAMGS вводит в действие карту здоровья

Gabon

По итогам двухдневного семинара при поддержке Национальной кассы страхования от болезней и социальных гарантий (CNAMGS) была принята "дорожная карта", призванная сделать качественную медицинскую помощь эффективной в глубинке. В целях оперативного управления...

Габон: CANAMGS вводит в действие карту здоровья

Gabon: CANAMGS operationalizes the health card

Gabon

At the end of a two-day workshop, a roadmap was adopted, with the support of the Caisse national d'assurance maladie et de garantie sociale (CNAMGS), to make quality medical care effective in the hinterland. In view of the operationalization of the health...

Increased public funding despite fall in revenues

Mozambique

Budget execution reports issued in April 2021, both at Health and Finances level, show that while revenue collection decreased in 2020, global spending increased, while debt operations remained equal. The role of external funding in this case, especially the EU grant...