'Sri Lanka on Sunday received the first batch of 264,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines provided under the World Health Organisation's COVAX facility, an official said. COVAX is the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines...
As part of the process of certifying their receivables, 90 Gabonese companies in sectors ranging from construction and public works to services, catering and hotels have just been called in by the collection and litigation department of the Caisse Nationale...
The public healthcare system in Nepal is a shared responsibility between the federal, local and provincial governments with the latter usually at the forefront of handling outbreaks such as COVID-19 on ground. The financing for their operations was mixed as well where...
The Philippines has seen relatively more challenges due to the Covid-19 Pandemic than perhaps its other South-east Asian counterparts. Despite the crafting of the historic Universal Health Care (UHC) Law over two years ago, the Pandemic has exposed several gaps in...
"The government’s stimulus packages have been comprehensive, rapid and well-sequenced, constituting 15 per cent of GDP. Almost half of respondents to a recent survey reported having received government support. Modelling estimates suggest that while government...
Coming into force on April 2, 2016, the measure aims to make healthcare for children under 5 and pregnant women, deliveries and caesarean sections, and breast and uterine cancer screening free of charge. In short, the aim of the President of Faso is to reduce the...
During his regional tour, the Director General of the Universal Health Coverage Agency expressed his satisfaction with the results achieved in Kaolack, during the year 2020. "We have paid up to one billion 67 million CFA francs, of which 345 million correspond to...
The project for the production and use of evidence-based data to support decision-making in the context of universal health coverage in Burkina Faso (PUD-CSU) aims to produce evidence-based data for decision-making in the health sector. To achieve this, studies are...
The project for the production and use of evidence-based data to support decision-making in the context of universal health coverage in Burkina Faso (PUD-CSU) aims to produce evidence-based data for decision-making in the health sector. To achieve this, studies are...
The Club universitaire Unesco pour la lutte contre la drogue et autres pandémies (Clucod) crie haro sur la taxe sur la consommation du tabac at a press conference. The Ivorian NGO held a press conference in February to denounce the low taxation in force in Côte...
The newly-installed Minister of Health has begun a series of discussions with his staff. These include CNAMU. A delegation from the Caisse d'assurance maladie universelle, led by the institution's General Manager, paid a visit to the new tenant of the ministerial...
Вновь вступивший в должность министр здравоохранения начал серию обсуждений со своими сотрудниками. К ним относится ЦНАМУ. Делегация Caisse d'assurance maladie universelle во главе с генеральным директором учреждения посетила сайт нового обладателя министерского...
According to Gilles Le Vavasseur , Director of Operations at group broker Génération, the nature of health insurance fraud is fairly standard: forged or doctored prescriptions, misappropriation of the lump sum for lenses to supplement reimbursement of frames -...
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is WHO’s standardized assessment of country health financing systems using a set of evidence-informed benchmarks, which are also referred to as desirable attributes. Each attribute represents one...
The report “Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm” is based on the newly updated Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). It is the 4th in a series of annual reports on global health spending that WHO has produced since 2017. The report...
