The Government of Nepal has recently endorsed a new ten-year strategy for health financing with the aim of ensuring equitable financial management to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) in Nepal. The National Health Financing Strategy 2080- 2090 includes strategic...
This policy note compares the healthcare coverage for migrant workers in the six GCC states – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. This report solely examines the legal provisions and does not evaluate migrant workers’ actual...
3 October 2023 | 4-5:30 PM-EAT (9-10:30 AM-ET) ThinkWell's latest Counterpoint webinar titled “Kenya’s new Social Health Insurance Bill: What, why, and how?” will offer a deep look into the purpose of the bill, its key features, and how it will be incorporated into...
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Building on a ten in country analysis of SHP and HF institutional frameworks initiated in the previous reporting period, P4H-CD provided in-depth support to P4H-CFPs from Cote d’Ivoire and Cambodia with the support of a WHO contracted consultant. The consultant...
This proclamation serves as an official declaration, establishing the fundamental provisions and principles of the social health insurance program in Ethiopia. It outlines the guidelines regarding coverage and eligibility, premiums, benefits and services, governance...
Zanzibar makes accelerated efforts to attain UHC The government of Zanzibar is dedicated to ensuring that every citizen has access to affordable and high-quality healthcare, aiming to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). As part of its ongoing efforts towards UHC,...
This article from the International Journal of Health Planning and Management assesses the purchasing arrangements of health services laid out in Egypt's Universal Health Insurance Law and its implications on health financing. Abstract Background: Egypt's Universal...
This article originally featured in International Health Policies, discusses Egypt’s healthcare system, the universal health insurance law (2017) that exhibited Egypt’s political will to work towards universal health coverage, and the implementation of the law in the...
In order to implement universal health insurance in Burkina Faso, the Transitional Legislative Assembly submitted the matter for debate on Friday, March 3, 2023, in Ouagadougou. The Minister of State in charge of the Civil Service has announced measures for its...
As of today, Mali has 87 infected patients. Sadly, this figure is set to rise in the days to come, if evil unrolls its merciless machinery there, as it has elsewhere, spreading mourning in its wake, instilling fear and anxiety everywhere, and battering even the...
The budget of the Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS) must have internal and external sources of financing for its sustainability over time and the fulfillment of the mission for which it was created. These include ordinary resources from the General Budget of the...
The purpose of Framework Law 29344, enacted on April 8, 2009, is to establish the regulatory framework for universal health insurance, in order to guarantee the full and progressive right of every person to social security in health, as well as to regulate access and...
