Australia approves new additional budget for mental health and suicide prevention
Australia approves $2.3 billion to mental health and suicide prevention over the next four years. $156.8 million from the federal government is funded to three months of follow-up care for people discharged from hospital after a suicide attempt. $22...
Thai private health insurance now covers for homecare treatment
The Office of Insurance Commission (OIC) announced that Covid-19 patients in home and community isolation programmes are eligible for reimbursements from the private insurance companies. Moreover, following this announcement, the insurance companies will be...
Maximizing convenience in payment of medical expenses covered by health insurance amid Covid-19
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Health ministry given extra funding for Covid-19 fight
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Health funding, farming reform, later retirement for women: Israel’s new budget
From banking reform to stipends for elderly, and from kashrut changes to Tel Aviv subway, here’s what you need to know about the budget, which needs Knesset approval by November 4. Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz reportedly secured a NIS 2 billion ($619 million)...
SENEGAL: Financial agreement with the USA and Europe for vaccine production
Senegal, several European institutions and countries, and the United States in particular, have announced the signing in Dakar of an agreement to finance the installation in this West African country of a production plant for vaccines against Covid-19 and other...
Togo: Two African training institutes include the Program Budget in their curricula
For three days, exchanges between African experts provided an opportunity to examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on program-budget reform and the effectiveness of public policies in the WAEMU region, and to draw lessons from the pandemic concerning the...
Mali:Malian parliament earmarks FCFA 32 billion for Covid-19
These funds, approved by the CNT, will supplement the budget deficits earmarked for the fight against Covid in Mali. According to Minister of Health 6.647 billion CFA francs have been injected by Mali's development partners in the fight against the...
CONGO: 6.5 billion FCFA for the Covid19 response
This project is part of the implementation of free healthcare for pregnant women and children, and fee waivers for the poorest households. The two parliamentary chambers of the Republic of Congo adopted on July 27 in Brazzaville, the bill authorizing...
Review of health financing in Namibia
Key factors to consider in the development of approaches to UHC include expanding coverage of the population in terms of access to and quality of health service; equitable distribution of services; the types of services to be provided in the benefits package1; and the...
SENEGAL: National diagnostic and orientation workshop on community mutuality
The evaluation and the prospect of a new phase of the CMU in Senegal constitute an opportunity for the community mutual benefit society to take ownership and position itself as a force for proposal and responsibility in the management of the CMU program and...
How to improve equity in UHC in Bangladesh
Document available on the Bangladesh country page on targeting the poor to enhance uptake of services and contribute to Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The Sustainable Development Goals’ UHC target implies that every person should have access to quality health care...
News Businesses to receive support in accessing global vaccine supply: PM
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Nepal rolls out COVID-19 vaccination for people living with disabilities
Nepal has started to vaccinate people with disabilities across the country against the coronavirus with the Johnson & Johnson single-shot jab. All differently-abled individuals with either their citizenship card or disability ID card are eligible for the J&J...
Japan considers a second COVID-19 payment to vulnerable households
The Japan government is considering to provide monthly payments for needy households to help ease the financial strain due to COVID-19 pandemic. Considering monthly payments are ¥60,000 for single-member households, ¥80,000 for two-person...