By changing the Tax Code, Turkmenistan raised excise duty on tobacco by 25%
Turkmenistan has raised excise rates on tobacco products, as well as on other manufactured tobacco and industrial tobacco substitutes. Changes to the excise rates were made in accordance with the Law of Turkmenistan “On Making Addenda and Amendments to the Tax Code of...
African Development Bank approves $10 million investment for Africa
In order to respond to the growing demands for affordable, quality healthcare services in several sub-Saharan African countries, the African Development Bank (ADB) approved a US$10 million equity investment to the Razorite Healthcare Africa Fund (RHAF1), hoping that...
The National Health Development Plan 2021-2025 of Equatorial Guinea is available at the following link
This health development plan seeks to improve equitable access of the population of Equatorial Guinea to quality health services in order to move towards universal health coverage .
Funding to support COVID-19 vaccination in 12 sub-Saharan Africa including Lesotho
The EU Humanitarian Aid donated a grant to UNICEF to help relieve Central African countries that were hit especially hard with COVID-19, one of which was Lesotho. Children suffered the greatest impact, as schools shut down for months, and they were forced into labor...
Technical Meeting on Budgeting for the National Health Development Plan in Equatorial Guinea
In order to boost the programmatic and management capacity of the National Health System, this event focused on reports on the logistics management of medicines as a pillar to guarantee the availability and quality of health services at all levels, and analyzed health...
Health Insurance introduced for the Jordanian Armed Forces
In 1963, the first health insurance scheme was initiated for members of the Jordanian armed forces (JAF). The Royal Medical Services (RMS) provides medical support to the forces, and is one of the leading health authorities in Jordan, playing a distinguished role in...
The Social Security Law No. 19
This Law establishes the General Social Security Institution to provide social insurance for all workers under sixteen with certain exceptions (seafarers, domestic servants, agricultural workers). The major chapters in the Law are on labour injuries and occupational...
Social Security Corporation established
The Social Security Corporation was established to protect and take care of Jordan’s workforce socially and economically. It is a socio-economic integral umbrella to protect their social and economic rights and provides insurance benefits and privileges to the insured...
Public Health Law no 47
This Law aims at regulating issues related to the public health system in Jordan. The Law governs all professions related to public health and conditions and necessary procedures required for practicing in the medical profession. Article 4 also states that the...
Interim amended law No. 26 (Social security)
Amended certain provisions of social health protection. The Law (In Arabic)
Social Security Law No. 1 of 2014 and its amendments
This replaced all preceding interim laws on social security and includes amendments to the provisions of health insurance in interim law no 7 (social security). Social Security Law (Ammended) 2014
Interim Law No. 7 (Social security)
This law includes provisions for insurance against work injuries, old-age, maternity insurance, insurance against unemployment and health insurance. The Law (English)
National Aid Fund (NAF)
The NAF was established with the aim of securing protection and care for financially vulnerable families, raising their standard of living by providing monthly and emergency financial aid. The NAF's functions include referrals to the Ministry of Health to issue...
Ministry of Health’s Strategic Plan
An 849 million USD plan to reform the health sector was adopted to improve primary healthcare, secondary healthcare, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, medical tourism, reliability, quality control and e-health. The plan derives financing from funds allocated for the...
Expanded home healthcare system
This initiative reduced out-of-pocket spending on palliative care due in part to the shift toward lower-cost, community-based services such as home care and outpatient visits. It also led to better utilization of resources in hospitals. Read More