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...
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In order to respond to the growing demands for affordable, quality healthcare services in several sub-Saharan African countries, the African Development Bank (ADB) approved a US$10 million equity investment to the Razorite Healthcare Africa Fund (RHAF1), hoping that...
The EU Humanitarian Aid donated a grant to UNICEF to help relieve Central African countries that were hit especially hard with COVID-19, one of which was Lesotho. Children suffered the greatest impact, as schools shut down for months, and they were forced into labor...
WHO together with the P4H country focal person initiated the preparation of a concept note for conducting a high-level policy dialogue on health financing for pandemic preparedness with technical inputs from the P4H Coordination Desk. The draft concept note was shared...
The WHO together with the P4H country focal person conducted a meeting with technical staff of the Health Economics and Financial Analysis team to deliberate the relevance of the guidance note as well as work around COVID-19 and health financing. The guidance note was...
October 2021 – March 2022 WHO together with the P4H country focal person held discussions with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) UK, Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and the World Bank, in particular how a high-level policy dialogue between the...
In the continued dialogue with MOH on health financing for COVID-19, it was discussed that the numerous pieces of work conducted in the country along with the learnings from COVID-19 and other health emergencies now presents an opportunity for the country to conduct...
