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NEWS | 01 Nov 2022
New documents available on Peru’s country page
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NEWS | 02 Oct 2022
Health insurance legislation changes presented at Azerbaijani-Turkish Medical Business Forum
Azerbaijan
Capital of Baku is hosting the "Azerbaijani-Turkish Medical Business Forum and Exhibition", which is jointly organized by the Ministries of Health of Turkey and Azerbaijan. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Minister of Health of Azerbaijan Teymur Musayev noted that...
NEWS | 30 Sep 2022
Who should pay patients for medical errors? Kazakhstan is adopting a law on malpractice insurance
Kazakhstan
For the first time in history, Kazakhstan is adopting a law on medical malpractice insurance. The Minister of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Azhar Giniyat, presented the draft law to the lower chamber of Parliament - Mazhilis. This law was developed...
NEWS | 19 Sep 2022
Bahrain to launch compulsory health insurance: Supreme Council of Health signs agreement
Bahrain
Bahrain will bring in compulsory health insurance for expatriates later this year and citizens from 2023. The net result will be a fall in outbound medical tourism. The Supreme Council of Health and Aon Bahrain* have signed an agreement on the...
NEWS | 19 Sep 2022
Egypt: Increasing financing of the health system in the past 8 years
Egypt
Egypt's comprehensive universal health insurance law (2018) has been accompanied by a number of decisive steps by the country's government to make it effective. It was followed by the launch of a package of health reforms to expedite the provision of service to the...
NEWS | 13 Sep 2022
Kenya Health Cabinet Secretary inaugurates National Health Insurance Fund’s board of directors
Kenya
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe says the Kenyan government is committed to expanding health service coverage with a focus on quality as well as reduction of healthcare costs. Speaking in Malindi while inaugurating board of directors of the, National Health...
DOCUMENT | 12 Sep 2022
Strategic health purchasing in Nigeria: Exploring the evidence on health system and service delivery improvements
Nigeria
Global commitment to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) has led to increasing attention on health purchasing. Purchasing is one of the key health financing functions that provides the critical link between resources mobilized for health and the effective...
NEWS | 12 Sep 2022
An update on the national health insurance scheme in Uganda
Uganda
The government of Uganda is in process of implementing the national health insurance scheme (NHIS)with the goal of improving financial risk protection and attaining universal health coverage. In this article see the questions to and the responses from the chief...
DOCUMENT | 06 Sep 2022
Institutional Report 2020 | BINASSS
Costa Rica
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund's 2020 annual report covers all of its activities including health and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DOCUMENT | 05 Sep 2022
Guatemalan Health Code
Guatemala
The Political Constitution of the Republic recognizes that the enjoyment of health is a fundamental human right without discrimination of any kind, and obliges the State to ensure it. The Guatemalan Health Code defines the responsibility of citizens and obligations of...
DOCUMENT | 01 Sep 2022
Decree extending the Social Security Law of Honduras
Honduras
This extension of the law includes the decree that specifies the benefits covered by the Honduran Social Security Institute and describes how this institution should operate.
NEWS | 01 Sep 2022
Honduran Social Security Institute seeks to expand coverage with new law
Honduras
The executive director of the IHSS, Adriana Zúñiga, proposes to the health commission of the National Congress that the institute joins the efforts for the creation of the new Social Security Law, allowing the expansion of coverage based on updated actuarial studies....
DOCUMENT | 30 Aug 2022
Colombia: Constitutional Ruling 760
Colombia
In this judgment, the Constitutional Court addresses several cases in which the protection of the right to health is invoked. These cases refer to various situations in which the required access to health services was denied.
DOCUMENT | 29 Aug 2022
Decree 538: Mitigating COVID-19 and guaranteeing the provision of health services in Colombia
Colombia
Health sector measures are adopted to contain and mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the delivery of health services.
DOCUMENT | 26 Aug 2022
Dominican Republic- Law 87-01
Dominican Republic
Law 87-01 of 2001 creates the National Social Security System in the Dominican Republic.