New documents include a paper on health sector reforms that lays out the measures taken by Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health to increase the country’s access to health services since the end of the civil war in 1992. Another publication reviews the health budget and...
Ghana introduced the NHIS in 2003 to reduce out-of-pocket payments for health care. Over a decade of its implementation, challenges about the financial sustainability of this pro-poor policy remain despite its critical role in attaining UHC. The authors conducted this...
Four documents on Ghana's NHIS have been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Ghana country page. The documents can be downloaded from the related documents below.
In the quest to ensure financial risk protection and equal access to health services and hence achieve universal health coverage, the Gambia government initiated the introduction of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in 2020. The minister of health Dr. Ahmad...
Kéfilath Bello, Fadhi Dkhimi, Y-LingChi, Jean-Paul Dossou, HélèneBarroy On May 20, 2021, WHO, P4H, the Center for Global Development, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) and Collectivity have organized a webinar entitled...
In this paper, the author analyses how UHC is being implemented in the health financing system of Tanzania and also how PPPs are contributing towards the attainment of UHC. A cross sectional survey was conducted in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania to evaluate the...
The government of Tanzania is committed to attaining UHC by 2030. In this vein, the government has set aside Sh149 billion (about 65 million USD) to implement UHC. The government spokesperson, Mr Gerson Msigwa, said the money would be used to start providing...
Two documents have been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Kenya country page. An assessing the feasibility of the amendment of the NHIF stipulating that all Kenyans must be registered under in the new universal health...
The NHIF amendment bill is part of Government of Kenya plan for achieving UHC. The goal of the UHC program is to provide health care for all based on need-not on ability to pay. One of the proposals in the 2021 NHIF amendment bill stipulates that all Kenyans must be...
Kenya has prioritized the attainment of UHC through the expansion of health insurance coverage by the NHIF. In 2015, the NHIF introduced reforms in premium contribution rates, benefit packages, and provider payment methods. In this study, the authors examine the...
(...) over the next 5 years, 20 billion Fcfa will be invested " to provide access to treatment for cancer patients. The Ivorian Minister of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage, Pierre Dimba, at the launch of the 2021 edition of Octobre...
Thai Cabinet has approved an extension of the Social Security contribution reduction for both employers and workers for another three months, from September to November, aiming to assist businesses and employees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the...
As part of new reforms, each household will soon be expected to make a compulsory Sh500 monthly contribution to the national hospital insurance fund (NHIF) as the country lines up a health cover for all Kenyans. The amount is a requirement for the...
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...
The NHIF is the proposed health insurance scheme for South Sudan and aims at achieving universal health coverage. One challenging compounding issue however, is that over the years, governments’ spending on healthcare has been decreasing from 8.4% of national budget...
