Government to distribute food from national reserve to pandemic-hit people
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On Covid-19 frontlines, health workers run gauntlet of death, illness
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New document on Bhutan’s experience with COVID-19 vaccination in 2021
Bhutan is country which has a good control of COVID pandemic with reported 957 cases of COVID-19 and one death, while 94 percent of adults population has been vaccinated in April 2021. This article aims to describes the challenges and enabling...
Nepal to get 4 million Moderna COVID vaccines under GAVI
Nepal has an agreement with GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, to procure 4 million doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. The vaccine purchase is financed by the World Bank through the COVAX cost-share option. The expected date of vaccine delivery is March...
Bangladesh begins Covid-19 vaccinations for Rohingya refugees
Bangladesh starts COVID vaccinations for Rohingya refugees who live in congested camps due to a rise of coronavirus cases. The first phase plans to cover 48,000 refugees whose aged over 55. In addition, massive...
Sri Lanka prioritizes elderly and people with chronic diseases for COVID test and vaccine
Sri Lanka prioritizes people age 60 and over and people with chronic diseases for receiving PCR and Rapid Antigen Tests as well as the vaccination. This is because they have a higher risk of death if they are not vaccinated. Thus, they...
Brunei announces vaccination for pregnant women to begin Monday (Aug 16)
Brunei has released a vaccination programme for pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers due to their higher risks if contract COVID-19. This programme is going to start from August 16, aiming to protect pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, including...
Vaccine coverage reach to 35 percent in Brunei Darussalam
Brunei Darussalam has reach 34.2 percent of total population or 201,441 people as of August 11, 2021. The vaccinated persons can be divided into those who received first dose and second dose, 155,001 and 46,440, respectively. The highest...
Singapore expands vaccination and test to employees in malls and supermarkets
Singapore expands COVID-19 vaccination or antigen rapid test twice a week to be required workers in shopping malls, supermarkets, taxi, and private drivers, starting from October 1. To support the vaccination, the number of public health...
Malaysia allocates RM10.3m for special assistance of Covid-19 death management
Malaysia provides RM10.3m for the special assistance of Covid-19 death management in order to support the next-of-kin of those who died due to coronavirus. The one-off special assistance of RM5,000 is allocated for the next-of-kin....
Thai cabinet approves B14.5 bn for coronavirus frontliners
Thai Cabinet approves an additional 14.5 billion baht, aiming to support the medical workers under the Covid-19 pandemic. This budget will be divided into two parts: approximately 12.7 billion baht will be provided to medical workers...
New article on determinants of health care utilisation: the case of Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia, which adopts a tax-based health system with free health care at the point of service. However, Timor-Leste has not yet achieved elimination of inequalities in the utilisation of health services. This...
New article on reforming premium amount in the Indonesian National Health Insurance System
Indonesia has developed the National Health Insurance System (NHIS), aiming to achieve the Universal Health Coverage. However, there was deficit problem during 2014 to 2019. The trend is likely to increase. This study aims to...
Multi-Regional Landscape Study and Analysis of Select West African Countries available
New West Africa regional document available: Recognizing that a healthy population promotes economic development, resilience, and strength, many governments have started pursuing a universal health coverage (UHC) agenda. The international community, national...
Document on developing and implementing health financing strategies available here
Low- and middle-income countries are developing health financing strategies to map out how they will pay for universal health coverage. This brief discusses three activities that are valuable for producing sound strategies: convening multi-sectoral committees to...