Jordan has received US$63.75 million in additional financing to support its efforts to promote safe, efficient and equitable access to COVID 19 vaccines. The new financing under its Jordan COVID 19 response project will support Jordan in reaching its target of...
This Journal of Global Health publication aims to describe the opportunities within Jordanian health care system's response to the COVID-19 pandemic during March-May, 2020. The authors look at five core dimensions of health care system performance: Equity, Quality,...
The Republic of Latvia has successfully joined the European COVID Digital Certificate gateway, which will further ensure the exchange of data with the member states of the European Union (EU) on the information included in Digital Certificates, according to the...
In March, Nigeria received about 4 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The arrival of the vaccines marked a historic step towards the goal to ensure equitable distribution...
On August 16, 2021, Nigeria launched the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign; a continuous effort towards curbing the spread of the disease in the country. At a symbolic event to mark the second phase at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Abuja,...
In this study, the authors analyse the financing of Nigeria’s healthcare system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They use the three health care financing functions: revenue collection, pooling, and purchasing. The findings show that Nigeria projected that it...
Nigeria like other low and middle-income countries made a commitment towards attaining UHC by 2030. The arrival of COVID‐19 poses additional pressure on the already weak health system, which in turn affects the provision of other equally important essential health...
Malaysia’s government plans to increase funds for Covid-19 support measures and raise the country’s statutory debt ceiling. The government considers adding 45 billion Malaysian ringgit ($10.8 billion) to the Covid-19 fund in order to support businesses...
Malaysia allocates RM3.1 billion for implementing Covid-19 special assistance (BKC), aiming to reduce the impacts of COVID-19, starting from September 6. BKC provides to 4.4 million households that include 1.1 million single senior citizens and 4.5 million single...
New Zealand paid over $876 million for the Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme so far to support more than a quarter of the country's employees affected by COVID-19. Of the 781,364 jobs are covered under the scheme, 14 percent were for self-employed workers....
In the Philippines, workers who had been infected with COVID-19 can now apply for financial support to the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) through a courier service. This benefit covers both sickness and death due to COVID-19. The COVID-19 has been added into...
In recent years, Senegal has embarked on several strategies to finance healthcare, with the risk of a certain fragmentation. Visit strategic plan for the development of universal health coverage 2013-2017 aims to cover at least 75% ...
As Central Asian countries, including Azerbaijan, are exploring the possibility of vaccinating children under 18 against COVID-19, news in Azerbaijan cited Hande Harmanci, Head of World Health Organization (WHO) office in Azerbaijan, informing the public that the WHO...
Shamima Akhter (ThinkWell Bangladesh), Anooj Pattnaik (ThinkWell), Callum Pierce (ThinkWell), Afroja Yesmin (ThinkWell Bangladesh), Pak Trihono (ThinkWell Indonesia) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Helal, the manager of a busy health facility in...
On 30th March, 2021, South Sudan received US$ 174.2 million to help finance the country’s urgent balance of payments needs and provide critical fiscal space to maintain poverty-reducing and growth-enhancing spending. A sharp decline in international oil prices...
