On Monday 8th November 2021, Gambia’s Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Lamin Samateh tabled the National Health Insurance (NHI) bill 2021 before lawmakers with the hope of securing its legislative consideration, scrutiny, and adoption. The Minister made the following...
The Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, 19th May, 2022 announced that he signed into law the 2022 National Health Insurance bill. The President made the following remarks, As part of our healthcare reforms, I have signed into law the recently passed 2022...
In 2019, the WHO developed a Health Financing Progress Matrix for countries to assess how far they have come in preparing their health financing systems to achieve financial risk protection and attain progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Sierra Leone...
All Amayesh and Hoviat card holder refugees, who have been enrolled in the previous cycle of Universal Public Health insurance (UPHI) scheme before March this year as vulnerable and had free-of-charge insurance coverage, can now approach any of the...
This Article aims to provide an overview of the recently issued Iraqi Health Insurance Law no. 22 of 2020 (the ‘Health Insurance Law’). It covers the entry into force, insurance coverage, financing of the healthcare insurance programme, and interaction with healthcare...
On April 29, 2022, the 2nd meeting of the Working Group of technical and financial partners in the health financing sector was held. The agenda was as follows: 1. Follow-up on action points 2. TOR and tools under review Finalization of the ToR for the cost and...
The Minister of Health and Social Development presented a report on a draft decree instituting the Unified Social Register which the Council of Ministers in its meeting of April 20, 2022 adopted. Data on the various vulnerable strata recorded on several registers were...
In the process of implementing As part of this reform of the healthcare system, aimed at guaranteeing equitable access to healthcare for all Cameroonians, the Government has set up a multi-sectoral National Technical Group CSU (GTN-CSU), co-chaired by the...
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,...
In a NITI Aayog report titled ‘Health Insurance for India’s Missing Middle’, the institution highlights that 30% of the population is devoid of health insurance, often termed as the 'missing middle' and has suggested three models for increasing the health insurance...
Mohamed Dadjane Keita is Director of Research Operations at the Center for HIV and Mental Health Research at the University of Miami. It focuses on an urgent issue: the creation of a health solidarity fund to save lives in Guinea. The researcher takes as his...
Ce document est un résumé et une illustration du contexte de l’appui de P4H au Burkina Faso sur la période 2012-2020.« Country Case Study » est un exercice proposé en interne par l’OMS qui invite les départements, unités et/ou pays à faire la démonstration de l’impact...
The Jordanian National Social Protection Strategy articulates the Government’s commitment to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and provide a social protection floor in the context of the Kingdom’s vision for a state that has social justice, equity, and...
