The Indonesian government recently received approval for a USD 450M loan from the Asian Development Bank to its domestic vaccine supplier PT Bio Farma to boost the country’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement which is under considerable stress owing to global...
The project "Mitigating Covid-19 impacts on vulnerable populations, ensuring national progress to achieve SDGs in Vietnam" will be co-implemented by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Vietnam's Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of...
The Minister of Health, Armindo Daniel Tiago, met on 16th April, 2021 with health development partners to take stock of external support in defined priority areas. The Minister exposed the priorities for this period, being the most relevant i) The project to...
According to Minister of Planning, Kané Aichatou Boulama, the funding from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) group should enable Niger to strengthen health surveillance and the management of covid-19 cases by equipping key units. It will also involve...
С 29 по 31 марта был проведен семинар, целью которого была разработка согласованной и бюджетированной глобальной дорожной карты по оцифровке на уровне сообществ с целью согласования действий партнеров. На церемонии открытия семинара были определены результаты, которые...
A workshop was held from March 29 to 31, with the aim of drawing up a concerted and budgeted global roadmap for digitization at community level, with a view to aligning partners. The opening ceremony of this workshop set the results targeted by this...
In response to covid-19, the IMF decided to increase its financing to the Mauritanian government. Initially intended to support a reform plan, the Extended Credit Facility agreement between Nouakchott and the Fund has been redirected towards a pandemic response...
The Asian Development Bank is providing the Philippines a $400 million loan for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. This is the first loan the bank is providing under its $9 billion Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility announced in...
'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...
Financing of $70 million (38.5 billion FCFA), approved by the World Bank, will enable Togo to take an important step towards extending health coverage to its entire population, hitherto reserved mainly for civil servants and similar staff. In a press release made...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend the Philippines a combined $700 million (about P33.9 billion) by March to buy vaccines and inoculate Filipinos against the COVID-19 disease. Documents of the Beijing-based...
The havoc that COVID-19 wreaked on Bangladesh is typical of the effect it had on South Asian countries in general in that it exposed the acute lack of investment- financial, infrastructural and in terms of human resources in the public healthcare system. Considering...
In Africa, over 80 % of medicines are imported, mainly from India and China for generics, and from major international laboratories for licensed medicines. Medical equipment, masks, tests and protection are also imported, often from Asia. In other...
This paper elaborates an approach to health financing policy that countries can adapt to their own national context. This entails: (1) specification of a set of health finance policy objectives, grounded in the core values espoused by WHO; (2) a conceptual framework...
More than 200 high-level individuals have been involved in L4UHC, from health and financial specialists through to politicians and representatives of civil society. Find out what they think about the programme, and how it has helped countries progress UHC, in the...
