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NEWS | 29 Jul 2021
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DOCUMENT | 26 Jul 2021
Ethiopia Public Expenditure Review
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s remarkable socio-economic transformation over the last decade has been marked by: a reorientation of expenditure from recurrent to capital; a significant devolution of resources from Federal Government to Regions; and a clear prioritization of...
NEWS | 22 Jul 2021
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...
NEWS | 21 Jul 2021
Mauritania: Amending Finance Law 2021, the prority to health!
Mauritania
The rectifying finance bill adopted by Mauritanian MPs on June 29 gives pride of place to the health sector. Indeed, this bill provides for budget cuts in almost all ministerial departments, with the exception of the one in charge of social welfare issues. The bill...
NEWS | 17 Jul 2021
Thailand plans to use public funds to cover cost of home care for COVID patients
Thailand
National Health Security Office, Thailand will cover costs of home care for asymptomatic or mild-symptom COVID-19 patients, aiming to reduce crowd in the hospitals, especially in Bangkok and metropolitan area. Home care includes online consulting with physicians,...
NEWS | 17 Jul 2021
Minimum sick leave entitlement to increase to 10 days in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand has passed the Holidays Amendment Bill to increase the minimum employee sick leave entitlement from 5 days to 10 days per year, starting from 24 July 2021 onwards. For more information, please click Source: Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment,...
DOCUMENT | 16 Jul 2021
Revision of the Ethiopian Essential Health Service Package: An Explication of the Process and Methods Used
Ethiopia
To make progress toward universal health coverage, countries should define the type and mix of health services that respond to their populations’ needs. Ethiopia revised its essential health services package (EHSP) in 2019. This paper describes the process,...
NEWS | 16 Jul 2021
The Government of Viet Nam specifies how Covid-19 related consultations and tests will be financed by the Health Insurance
Vietnam
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?ItemID=9913&CateID=198
DOCUMENT | 14 Jul 2021
Towards universal health coverage (UHC) in Zambia: impediments and opportunities
Zambia
The inclusion of UHC in the 2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) targets (target 3.8) and the national commitments requires that all its member states work towards achieving this agenda. However, there are concerns over its feasibility in low and middle-income...
NEWS | 09 Jul 2021
CONGO ECONOMY/FINANCE LAW 2021: A NEW TAX INSTITUTED ON UNIVERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo has instituted Universal Health Insurance Coverage (CAMU) in the 2021 Finance Act. This new tax is one of the new elements instituted in this law, the popularization campaign for which was launched on Monday February 22, 2021 in Brazzaville. Initiated by...
DOCUMENT | 08 Jul 2021
The second Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP-II)
Ethiopia
This is the second Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP-II) covering the period between Ethiopian fiscal years 2013 and 2017 (July 2020–June 2025). HSTP-II was developed as the first part of a 10-year health sector plan. It was prepared based on an in-depth...
NEWS | 08 Jul 2021
Cameroon: National Assembly in favor of Universal Health Coverage
Cameroon
"Protection towards Universal Health Coverage and Covid19 vaccination: opportunities for human capital development". This was the theme of the special plenary session chaired on Wednesday June 23 by the Vice-President of the National Assembly, Théophile...
NEWS | 24 Jun 2021
Thailand: More funding for NHSO to compensate for serious vaccine side effects
Thailand
The government has allocated an additional 30 million baht to the National Health Security Office to be used to pay compensation to people who suffer rare serious side effects from inoculation with COVID-19 vaccines. ...
NEWS | 23 Jun 2021
Collaboration between Viet Nam social security and ILO
Vietnam
Although so far Viet Nam did not experience a Covid-19 “health” crisis as the rest of the World, it has suffered from the social and economic impact of the global pandemic. The economic slow-down has translated into reduced availability of work opportunities, for a...
NEWS | 23 Jun 2021
Health system (in Morocco): A greater role for the Sheikh Zaïd and Sheikh Khalifa Foundations
Morocco
The Government Council, meeting on Thursday June 17, adopted two bills. The first relates to the Sheikh Zaïd Ibn Soltan Foundation and the second to the Sheikh Khalifa Ibn Zaïd Foundation. Here are the details of the changes.