DOCUMENT | 18 Oct 2021
Côte d’Ivoire: Report on the workshop to develop the framework for the national health financing coordination platform
Côte d’Ivoire
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DOCUMENT | 18 Oct 2021
Côte d’Ivoire: 2021-2023 framework for the national health financing coordination platform
Côte d’Ivoire
NEWS | 18 Oct 2021
BENIN: Free FP, a relief for the indigent fund
Benin
In 2005, the Beninese government set up the Indigent Health Fund to facilitate access to healthcare for the underprivileged. In the field, family planning appears as a means of reducing expenditure on this Fund. Free access to FP services to reduce...
NEWS | 18 Oct 2021
COTE d’IVOIRE: The national platform for coordinating health financing sets up a working framework
Côte d’Ivoire
A workshop was held in Yamoussoukro to develop a framework for the National Platform for the Coordination of Health Financing. This platform is intended as a forum for exchange, with the remit of establishing consensus on healthcare expenditure targets, ensuring the...
NEWS | 16 Oct 2021
Healthcare benefits cover more COVID 19 care in Thailand
Thailand
In Thailand, 198.89 billion baht has been approved for National Health Security Fund to operate the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) in the 2022 fiscal year, excluding 140.55 billion baht earmarked separately for staff’s payroll. The 2022 budget will be rearranged to...
NEWS | 16 Oct 2021
Sudan receives support in strengthening the delivery of primary health care and essential health services
South Sudan
As part of COVID-19 response and recovery, the government of south sudan is determined to ensure that the delivery and utilization of primary health care and essential health services is stronger and more resilient. The world health organization with support...
NEWS | 05 Oct 2021
Niger- I3S project: 157 million CFA francs in medicines and consumables for women and children in the Dosso region
Niger
On Wednesday September 29 in Niamey, the Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs, Mr Illiassou Idi Maïnassara, took delivery of medicines and medical consumables donated by the Initiative Santé Solidarité Sahel (I3S) project for children aged 0-5 and...
NEWS | 28 Sep 2021
Ministry of Health and public university start hospital costing process
Mozambique
MOH and UEM public university (the oldest and most important in Mozambique) are starting a process of costing of health services, focused on hospitals. The objective is to know the costs of service provision, as well as to train hospital managers in cost accounting....
NEWS | 27 Sep 2021
Financing nursing care more than doubled in Estonia in 2021
Estonia
According to materials prepared by Triin Habicht, a renown health economist from Estonia (WHO consultant) and her colleague Kaija Kasekamp (University of Tartu), the Estonian Insurance Fund started financing nursing services in assisted living facilities since 2020...
NEWS | 26 Sep 2021
Kazakhstan assessed the status of Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform
Kazakhstan
On September 7, 2021, a regular meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Healthcare was held in Kazakhstan. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Healthcare Alexey Tsoy (on the photo), his First Vice-minister Marat Shoranov, Vice-Minister Azhar Giniyat, as well...
NEWS | 24 Sep 2021
Philippines provides cash aid to COVID-infected employees
Philippines
In the Philippines, workers who had been infected with COVID-19 can now apply for financial support to the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) through a courier service. This benefit covers both sickness and death due to COVID-19. The COVID-19 has been added into...
NEWS | 23 Sep 2021
Senegal: a resilient health insurance model in times of Covid-19
Senegal
In recent years, Senegal has embarked on several strategies to finance healthcare, with the risk of a certain fragmentation. Visit strategic plan for the development of universal health coverage 2013-2017 aims to cover at least 75% ...
NEWS | 23 Sep 2021
Senegal: CMU and reduced expenses for HIV patients
Senegal
In the current context of declining international funding for HIV, the development of UHCs is seen by UNAIDS as a way of improving the quality of life of people living with HIV. opportunity to finance access to HIV care. As no strategy has been defined at...
DOCUMENT | 21 Sep 2021
The republic of South Sudan’s essential package of health services (EPHS): A snapshot
South Sudan
An effective health system is one that meets the health needs of its population by providing equitable access to affordable, high-quality health care including treatment and preventive services (WHO, 2005). To meet such a mandate, most countries have defined an...
NEWS | 20 Sep 2021
Discussion for public consensus begins to introduce sickness benefits in Korea
Korea (Republic of)
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (Minister Kwon Deok-chul) announced on 15 April 2021 the establishment of the “Sickness Benefits System Planning Advisory Committee” (hereinafter referred to as the “Advisory Committee”) and held the first meeting. Except for...