DOCUMENT | 13 Apr 2022
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DOCUMENT | 13 Apr 2022
Country Briefs CIS webinar: Social Health Protection and Health Financing Reforms (April 2022)
NEWS | 13 Apr 2022
P4H Webinar on CIS #1: Presenting executive summary, additional resources and a video of the webinar now available on YouTube
On 16 March 2022 the P4H Network hosted the first of two webinars on social health protection and health financing reforms in three countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). P4H hosted the webinar in collaboration with the World Health...
DOCUMENT | 11 Apr 2022
Cameroon: Order to set up a CSU committee
Cameroon
The Ministry of Health has decided to set up a committee to reflect on and monitor the implementation of the CSU pilot phase. This committee's mission is to propose the documents required to operationalize the CSU's operational phase at the end of 2021. Working group...
DOCUMENT | 11 Apr 2022
The South Africa National Health Insurance bill
South Africa
In 2019, the South African government committed to establishing a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Fund to ensure that the most vulnerable are protected from catastrophic expenditures from medical expenses to attain universal health coverage. This NHI Act,...
NEWS | 03 Apr 2022
The Government of Uzbekistan appointed the Executive director of the State Health Insurance Fund
Uzbekistan
By the relevant decision of the Government of Uzbekistan, Dr Farrukh Rakhimovich Sharipov has been appointed as the Executive Director of the State Health Insurance Fund. Farrukh Sharipov was born in 1969 in the Samarkand region. He started his career as a...
NEWS | 25 Mar 2022
The government of Eswatini urged to introduce COVID-19 to increase fiscal space
Eswatini
The COVID-19 pandemic came with a lot of uncertainties and has had a significant impact on not only the health sector but also on the economy especially in low and middle income countries. However, it also presented an opportunity for governments to be innovative in...
DOCUMENT | 18 Mar 2022
Social Protection System Review of Cambodia, OECD Development Pathways
Cambodia
"The Social Protection System Review is intended to contribute to the implementation of the Social Protection Policy Framework. It provides analysis and recommendations to lay the foundations for a comprehensive and sustainable social protection system."
NEWS | 17 Mar 2022
Oman government meets COVID 19 healthcare challenge by procuring private sector services
Oman
Oman’s public health sector partnered with private healthcare institutions that helped in lessening the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country. Private sector participation increased the country’s hospitalization capacity, handled the overflow of patients from...
NEWS | 08 Mar 2022
State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance made some organizational restructuring
Azerbaijan
Some organizational changes were made in the Azerbaijani Management Union of Medical Territorial Units, called TABIB for short in the local language. TABIB is the subsidiary organization of the State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance. So the unique structure...
DOCUMENT | 04 Mar 2022
Country Briefs CIS webinar: Social Health Protection and Health Financing Reforms (March 2022)
DOCUMENT | 04 Mar 2022
CIS country summaries: social protection reforms in health care and health financing
DOCUMENT | 03 Mar 2022
Impact Evaluation of Service Delivery Grants to Improve Quality of Health Care Delivery in Cambodia
Cambodia
"The purpose of this report was to provide an overview of the Health Equity and Quality Improvement Project (H-EQIP) and to present the baseline findings of the Service Delivery Grants impact evaluation. Hte report also includes a discussion and outlines some policy...
NEWS | 19 Feb 2022
To contain costs, Kazakhstan’s Government is capping expenses for hospital construction
Kazakhstan
Under the State Health Development Program for years 2020-2025, adopted in 2019 and reframed into a National Project "Healthy Nation" in 2021, Kazakhstan has planned to build 20 large hospitals to replace multiple existing worn-out hospitals accross the country....
NEWS | 18 Feb 2022
The Philippines 2022 national budget secured free COVID-19 testing
Philippines
The Philippines has allocated P17.85 billion under the 2022 national budget for Covid-19 testing, aiming to ensure affordability and accessibility to the tests among its population. The funds will be allocated to the state laboratories so that more free tests...