COVID-19 lockdown in Laos extended till Aug. 18
Lao government has extended lockdown measures nationwide to Aug. 18 due to a rise of COVID-19 cases. The National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Tuesday reported 237 new imported cases and 13 locally...
Maldives’ government requires all employees to be inoculated
Maldives' government requires all government employees to get vaccinated before August 15 on Tuesday in order to control the spread of COVID-19 and the community-wide inoculation program had made progress towards achieving a new normal. The government...
Maldives vaccinates 50% of eligible population
Maldives has vaccinated 50 per cent of the total population; 320,059 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 251,232 people have received the second doses. Maldives has started the vaccination program since...
Malaysia announces new threshold measurement indicator to move between phases 1 and 2 of the National Recovery plan
Malaysia government announces new symptomatic Covid-19 infections as an indicator for the National Recovery Plan (NRP). The threshold will be no more than 2,000 symptomatic cases requiring hospitalisation in order to move from Phase One to Phase Two of the...
Brunei extends its vaccination centre operating hours, aims to vaccinate at least 70% of population
Brunei has extended an operating hours of vaccination centre under the national Covid-19 vaccination programme to 8pm, starting from August 2, aiming to reach target of 70 percent of vaccination population. The extend hours...
Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments
Australia provides the COVID-19 Disaster Payment divided into three different rates based on the number of hours of work lost by an eligible recipient and whether or not they are receiving an income support payment: $200 per week for those in receipt of an...
Webinar Series 1: Health Financing for UHC in India
Please click here to Register and joint us on Wednesday August 18! P4H, in collaboration with Access Health International and India Health Systems Collaborative, India, is organising a webinar series on Health Financing in India. The first webinar on Health...
Sharing experiences from the “One plan – One budget – One report” initiative
Oromia State Health Bureau recently shared experiences and lessons learned from the "One plan – One budget – One report" initiative with a delegation from the Central African Republic. The initiative was introduced to guide the harmonization and...
Indonesia to give Covid-19 booster shots to health workers next week
Indonesia plans to provide the third doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 1.47 million health care workers throughout the nation due to concerning of health workers having a high risk of contracting coronavirus. For more information, please click. Source:...
Bhutan’s Vaccination Program Scales New Heights
Bhutan has reach 90 percent of vaccination of adults population. Although Bhutan's small population would help for achieving the fast vaccination coverage, the country also benefited from strong and effective messaging from top officials and an established...
Bangladesh borrows $940M for COVID-19
Bangladesh borrows $940 M from external loan to finance vaccine purchase, aiming to enhance COVID-19 vaccine coverage. This loan will be used for purchasing 44.7M coronavirus vaccine doses which could vaccinate more than 20 million people. The...
New article on evaluation of health systems equity in Indonesia now available in documents section
Universal health coverage (UHC) improves the equity of the health system. With UHC, the poor and vulnerable populations could access quality and essential health care without financial barriers or the risk of catastrophic health expenditure. To close equity gaps,...
Singapore provides support package to help workers and business
Due to heightened alert for COVID-19, Singapore government implements tightened safe management measures and at the same time, the government will offer a support package to reduce the impact on workers and businesses. This support will...
New article on does tax-based health financing offer protection from financial catastrophe? Findings from a household economic impact survey of ischemic heart disease in Malaysia now available on documents section
Universal health coverage (UHC) protects the households from falling into poverty due to catastrophic health spending. Malaysia, an upper middle-income country, has achieved UHC through tax-based financing model similar to the Sweden model. This study measures the...
Philippines provides special risk allowance for public and private health workers
Philippines has released the Special Allotment Release Order and the Notice of Cash Allocation amounting to P9.02-billion to the Department of Health to cover the payment of the Special Risk Allowances (SRA) of public and private health workers. The...