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The Sierra Leone free health care initiative: process and effectiveness review
Sierra Leone

The introduction of the free health care initiative in 2010, which removed user fees for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five was supported by earlier evidence that showed health-related financial costs were a major barrier to mothers and children...

Sierra Leone’s free health care initiative: Financing implications
Sierra Leone’s free health care initiative: Financing implications
Sierra Leone

In 2010 the Government of Sierra Leone established the Free Health Care Initiative  removing user fees (on drugs and consultations) for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five. The major objective of the scheme, as far as health financing was...

The right choice: Achieving universal health coverage in Malawi
Malawi

In Malawi primary healthcare services are provided for free at point of use in all government facilities and selected Christian Association of Malawi facilities through service level agreements). In practice, however, around 70% of the services provided at tertiary...

Thai cabinet approves 42-billion-baht for business affected by COVID
Thai cabinet approves 42-billion-baht for business affected by COVID
Thailand

Thai cabinet has approved a 42-billion-baht package of financial assistance for people and businesses affected by the government's partial Covid-19 lockdown, currently implemented in Bangkok and nine other provinces to contain the coronavirus outbreak. For more...

Philippines now covers cartridge based PCR tests
Philippines now covers cartridge based PCR tests
Philippines

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is now paying for SARS-CoV-2 testing using cartridge-based polymerase chain reaction or PCR tests. The new benefit package ranges from Php 1,059 to Php 2,287 and will be paid directly to the accredited testing...

Essential Health Services Package of Ethiopia
Ethiopia

The Essential Health Service Package, launched in November 2019, aims to provide access to quality health services without any financial challenges regardless of age, ability to pay and economic status, and geographic location for the population in Ethiopia.    

Prioritizing Essential Packages of Health Services in six countries in SSA
Ethiopia

This document presents case studies from six African countries (Eswatini, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa) and: • reviews the process by which prioritized SRHR interventions were included in countries’ health benefits packages; • discusses...