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Ethiopia Joins Brics Health Talks, Backs Stronger Global Cooperation

Ethiopia Joins Brics Health Talks, Backs Stronger Global Cooperation

Ethiopia

At the 15th BRICS Health Ministers' Meeting in Brasília, Ethiopia reaffirmed its commitment to global health equity, emphasizing the need for resilient health systems and progress toward Universal Health Coverage. The country also called for enhanced cooperation among...

South Korea Faces Fiscal Crisis in National Health Insurance

South Korea Faces Fiscal Crisis in National Health Insurance

Korea (Republic of)

South Korea’s national health insurance system is facing a financial crisis, with rising premiums unlikely to ensure long-term fiscal stability, prompting the government to propose abolishing the subsidy sunset system and increasing state funding. However, experts...

How Sri Lanka’s immunisation system is weathering an economic crisis

How Sri Lanka’s immunisation system is weathering an economic crisis

Sri Lanka

M. P. Nirmala, a 26-year-old woman who is a few weeks pregnant with her first child, embodies the confidence many Sri Lankan mothers feel about the country’s healthcare system. At the Divisional Hospital Thalangama, located about 9 kilometers from Colombo, Nirmala...

Transforming Health Care Access in the Pacific Islands

Transforming Health Care Access in the Pacific Islands

Kiribati, Tuvalu, Samoa

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the need to invest in the service capability and resilience of the health systems of Pacific Island countries. Responding to this need, the World Bank launched three Health System Strengthening operations in Samoa (2020), Kiribati...

Nepal’s health insurance program: challenges and early impacts

Nepal’s health insurance program: challenges and early impacts

Nepal

Nepal’s National Health Insurance Program (NHIP), launched in 2016 to improve healthcare access and reduce costs, has faced low enrollment and high dropout rates due to concerns about service quality, lack of awareness, administrative delays, and affordability issues....

Tanzania turns to domestic taxes to close HIV and health funding gaps

Tanzania turns to domestic taxes to close HIV and health funding gaps

Tanzania (United Republic of)

Tanzania aims to raise Sh586.4 billion through new domestic taxes to close HIV and health financing gaps, as global donor support declines. The move marks a strategic shift in health financing.Tanzania has announced plans to raise Sh586.4 billion through new domestic...

Gavi and ADB to unlock sustainable immunisation financing in Asia

Gavi and ADB to unlock sustainable immunisation financing in Asia

Gavi and the Asian Development Bank sign an agreement to expand health financing, support vaccine access, and strengthen health systems across 32 countries in Asia and the Pacific.Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a major new...

Jordan launches 2020–2022 health accounts and unveils reform roadmap

Jordan launches 2020–2022 health accounts and unveils reform roadmap

Jordan

Jordan’s Health Ministry launches National Health Accounts and COVID-19 spending review, setting the stage for a new reform plan to strengthen health financing and expand universal health coverage.The Jordanian Ministry of Health has officially launched the National...