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NHI Implementation in South Africa: Key Risks and Challenges
NHI Implementation in South Africa: Key Risks and Challenges
South Africa

South Africa’s NHI aims for universal healthcare but risks higher costs, reduced access, overburdened public hospitals, provider exits, rising lawsuits, and costly transitions. Without viable alternatives, it could destabilise both public and private healthcare...

German Chancellor Merz announces massive cuts to social welfare benefits
German Chancellor Merz announces massive cuts to social welfare benefits
Germany

Germany expedites cuts to social welfare, pensions, and healthcare to cover military spending, deepening poverty for workers and pensioners while sparing the wealthy. Rising deficits fuel class tensions, prompting calls for socialist reorganization.Germany is moving...

Philippine healthcare: Families drowning in out-of-pocket expenses
Philippine healthcare: Families drowning in out-of-pocket expenses
Philippines

Out-of-pocket health spending in the Philippines hit ₱615B in 2024, 42.7% of total healthcare costs, exposing families to debt as government schemes lag behind rising expenses. Experts urge reforms and new financing tools like sin taxes to ease the unsustainable...

Belgian reform package targets excessive medical fees
Belgian reform package targets excessive medical fees
Belgium

Belgium’s summer agreement reforms healthcare by limiting excessive doctor surcharges, ensuring fair billing and equal reimbursements, curbing pharmaceutical overspending, and promoting sustainable care while preserving provider autonomy. This marks a historic step...

Catastrophic health expenditure and household impoverishment in Togo
Togo

This peer review journal article published in 2023 analyses catastrophic health expenditures and effects on household impoverishment in Togo.  Since 2015, Togo has been committed to working towards ensuring access to quality health care without its citizens incurring...

One in five women in WHO Southeast Asia region covered under health insurance
One in five women in WHO Southeast Asia region covered under health insurance
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal

In WHO Southeast Asia, only 1 in 5 women and 1 in 4 men have health insurance, with major gaps due to cultural, economic, and systemic factors. Tailored policies, stronger financing, and community education are needed to boost coverage and achieve Universal Health...

Shastha Chorcha Forum: Advancing Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh
Shastha Chorcha Forum: Advancing Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh
Bangladesh

The second “Shastha Chorcha” by WHO Bangladesh gathered global and local health leaders to address challenges in achieving Universal Health Coverage. Emphasis was placed on innovation, leadership, community engagement, and collaboration for sustainable health...

Evolving healthcare in Southern and Southeast Asia
Evolving healthcare in Southern and Southeast Asia
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand

Rapid ageing and rising non-communicable diseases are straining South and Southeast Asia’s underfunded healthcare systems. Countries are boosting funding, adopting digital health, and improving preventive care, but rural access gaps and high costs persist despite...