24th March 2021: Somali NGOs warmly welcome the first batch of COVID19 vaccines this week from COVAX and warn that Somalia is facing critical shortages of oxygen and medical supplies to cope with the rising COVID-19 cases. With current vaccine doses less than 2% of...
According to Minister of Planning, Kané Aichatou Boulama, the funding from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) group should enable Niger to strengthen health surveillance and the management of covid-19 cases by equipping key units. It will also involve...
In response to covid-19, the IMF decided to increase its financing to the Mauritanian government. Initially intended to support a reform plan, the Extended Credit Facility agreement between Nouakchott and the Fund has been redirected towards a pandemic response...
As countries roll out COVID-19 vaccination, what are the links with universal health coverage and a shared vision to leave no one behind? P4H and UHC2030 webinar on 29 March 2021, 14:30 - 16:00 More information and...
The health system in the Philippines has two major defining public health safeguards- the Philippine Health Security Corporation known as PhilHealth and the Universal Health Care Law passed in February 2019 that now extends PhilHealth to all Filipinos. While...
Thailand is still in two minds about joining the COVAX Programme to procure COVID-19 vaccines for its citizens. According to the country’s Public Health Ministry, the terms of COVAX are ‘too limiting’ to invest billions of bath as deposit to join. Fears are that the...
https://p4h.world/index.php/en/node/10617 The Prime Minister Decision No.21 stipulates the State Budget shall ensure the funding of the Covid-19 vaccination, following the principle of decentralization of State budget.
The (Australian) Government is delivering a record $115.5 billion in 2020–21 and $467 billion over the forward estimates to deliver the essential health services Australians need under the Long Term National Health Plan. (The) Government has committed more...
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Wednesday scored the “biggest factory defect” in the proposed P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget, citing how health infrastructure would be getting only a “microscopic” 1 percent share of total spending for government...
Japan's parliament enacted a law Wednesday to cover the costs for residents to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged to secure coronavirus vaccines for all the roughly 126 million residents of the country in the first half...
Some RM31.9 billion was allocated for the healthcare sector in (the) 2021 (Budget for Malaysia) compared with RM30.6 billion in 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to persist for a number of years, an additional RM1 billion has been allocated to stem the...
'Sri Lanka will likely receive the first batch of a government-approved COVID-19 vaccine within the next three months and plans are underway to vaccinate all citizens free of charge, Chief Epidemiologist Dr Sudath Samaraweera said. The Pfizer-BionTech vaccine...
The Asian Development Bank is providing the Philippines a $400 million loan for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. This is the first loan the bank is providing under its $9 billion Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility announced in...
'Sri Lanka on Sunday received the first batch of 264,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines provided under the World Health Organisation's COVAX facility, an official said. COVAX is the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines...
