Strategy for building resilient health systems and recovery in post-pandemic COVID-19 to sustain and protect public health gains.
DOCUMENT | 14 Nov 2022
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NEWS | 10 Oct 2022
A committee has been established in Cameroon to facilitate the execution of emergency expenses like COVID-19
Cameroon
A committee chaired by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health was set up in Cameroon to monitor the execution of expenses related to emergency situations like COVID-19, the African Cup of Nations. The monitoring committee ensures that the priority health...
NEWS | 10 Oct 2022
Creation of a special account for COVID-19 expenditures in Cameroon
Cameroon
In the fight against COVID-19, Cameroon refocussed the state budget in the year 2020. A special account called "Special National Solidarity Fund for the fight against the Coronavirus and its economic and social repercussions" was created under the yearly budget law as...
NEWS | 06 Oct 2022
Belarus monitors health workers’ salary growth after cancelling COVID-related payments
Belarus
From July 1, Belarus canceled COVID-19 related allowances (additional payments) for doctors and nurses working with COVID-19 positive patients, but introduced new permanent bonuses, which are tied to a percentage of the salary, depending on the complexity and...
NEWS | 30 Sep 2022
A pandemic triad: HIV, COVID-19 and debt in low- and middle-income countries
This article assesses the impact of the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics and debt dynamics on health, HIV and pandemic preparedness and response-related financing in developing countries. Using a novel dataset, the study does a cross-national systematic analysis of all data...
POST | 27 Sep 2022
Extra-Budgetary Funds for COVID-19: Evidence from two years of implementation
By: Justine Hsu (World Health Organization); Hélène Barroy (World Health Organization); Richard Allen (Global Consultant on Public Finance); Fazeer Sheik Rahim, (International Monetary Fund); Tsolmon Tsilaajav (World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East...
NEWS | 12 Sep 2022
New financing agreement to boost South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination program and health system
South Africa
On 13 June, 2022, the World Bank Group approved a 454.4 million euro (ZAR 7.6 billion or $480 million) loan for South Africa’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Project. South Africa implemented a robust vaccination program and as of June 13, 2022, over 36.4 million...
NEWS | 06 Sep 2022
Costa Rica to receive $80 million financing from CABEI for purchase of vaccines | La Nación
Costa Rica
At the beginning of 2021 Costa Rica was in talks with the Central American Investment Bank for a loan of USD 80 million for the purchase of vaccines against COVID-19. Read the full article here
NEWS | 06 Sep 2022
Five reasons why Costa Rica is successfully facing the coronavirus pandemic | UN News
Costa Rica
Costa Rica won recognition for its management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has historically had a robust, universal health care system that covers the majority of the population. Read the complete article in the following link
DOCUMENT | 05 Sep 2022
Decree 11-2021 Emergency Law COVID-19 Guatemala
Guatemala
The emergency decree-law establishes the legal provisions for the acquisition in the national and international market of medicines, goods, supplies, services, medical and surgical material; works for the expansion and conditioning of public health services; the...
NEWS | 05 Sep 2022
Guatemalan regulations guarantee free access to vaccination against COVID-19
Guatemala
One of the fundamental pillars for the approval of Decree 1-2021, Law for the Financing and Acquisition of Vaccines against the Covid-19 Coronavirus, was to guarantee access to health care for Guatemalans in the face of the latent threat of the new coronavirus, for...
NEWS | 29 Aug 2022
US$100 million for Dominican Republic’s COVID-19 Response
Dominican Republic
This financing will help the country’s efforts to limit the adverse impacts of COVID-19 addressing immediate health risks and socio-economic effects. These include measures to support the most vulnerable population, and reduce the financial burden on households...
DOCUMENT | 18 Aug 2022
Building resilient health financing in the wake of COVID-19: case studies of subnational health budgeting in Kenya
Kenya
In 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic illustrated like nothing else in recent history the importance of building resilient health systems. The diversion of health system resources to address COVID-19 care led to a disruption of essential health services which affected...
NEWS | 04 Aug 2022
World Bank funds COVID-19 response project in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Turkmenistan on Wednesday handed over another batch of test systems for PCR diagnostics of COVID-19 to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan. According to a UNDP press release, the consignment was...
NEWS | 04 Aug 2022
UNDP funded medical supplies worth over $969,000 USD for Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan received medical supplies worth more than $969,000 US dollars this week to as part of fight with COVID-19. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) funded the purchase of and handed over medical goods worth more than 969 thousand US dollars to the...