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,...
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,...
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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...
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...
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...
"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...
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. ...
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...
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.
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.
The National Health Security Board has approved laboratory testing and medication for treating vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) under the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS)'s benefits package. The introduction of VITT laboratory testing and...
Russian Federation has enforced a Law on the Reform of the Mandatory Health Insurance (MHI) System since January of this year. The document enabled the transfer of the powers of insurers in controlling and financing of medical care to the Federal office of the...
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed the Government to develop a health insurance model of health care, the introduction of which was promised in his election program. According to the orders given by the President, the Law on Health Insurance should be...
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