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...
The Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie universelle organized a workshop in Ouagadougou on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, to validate the results of the general nomenclature of acts for healthcare professionals in Burkina Faso. Once finalized, this general nomenclature of...
WHO Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with WHO Country Office in Kyrgyzstan and WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing published a report titled “Health financing in Kyrgyzstan: obstacles and opportunities in the response to COVID-19” (2021)....
Malaysia provides RM10.3m for the special assistance of Covid-19 death management in order to support the next-of-kin of those who died due to coronavirus. The one-off special assistance of RM5,000 is allocated for the next-of-kin....
There is an international call for countries to ensure universal health coverage. This call has been embraced in South Africa in the form of a National Health Insurance (NHI). Other forms of health financing in South Africa include general tax revenue, direct...
India’s health care system underperforms its low- and middle-income peers. It has been seen that countries in South Asia with lower PPP-adjusted GDPs per capita have delivered better health outcomes than India has. And in terms of financial protection, Indian...
Thai cabinet has approved 60 percent reduction of contributions for informal sector workers or people who are insured under section 40 of the Social Security Act for six months, aiming for mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 situation. For more...
The Bhutan government has earmarked a budget of Nu 3 billion to response COVID-19. This earmarked budget will be allocated to containment related expenses such as quarantine expenses, procurement of test kits, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and...
New Zealand will spend $1.4 billion for COVID-19 vaccination programme. The buget has been allocated to purchasing vaccines and specialist equipment, manufacturer advance purchase agreements, technology cost to support the rollout, and other...
On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, the workshop for consistency, consolidation and validation of the national strategy for universal health coverage (UHC) opened in the meeting room of the NGO LIBO in Liboré. The meeting, which lasted four (4) days, was organized by the DEP of...
Two items were on the agenda of this meeting of the technical committee for the evaluation of the universal health coverage program in Senegal: Pre-validation of the report on the CMU program's service billing system ; the pre-validation of the ...
311.6 million baht, to be taken from the Thai government's central budget, was approved to cover the cost of Covid-19 containment measures adopted by prisons and correctional facilities in the country. The money will be used to buy 100,000 sets of RT PCR Covid-19 test...
Keeping the mass vaccination in mind, the revenue target for the next fiscal has been set Tk 389,078 crore, which is 11.02% of the GDP, according to the finance ministry and National Board of Revenue (NBR) sources. There will be Tk 10,000 crore special allocation for...
A scoping meeting on health financing in Niger brought together experts working on the issue on a virtual platform. Below is a summary of the main points from the June 3 meeting: A presentation of the steps involved in setting up the National Health Insurance...
