As Bangladesh shows a decreasing trend in healthcare budget over the years, the lack of healthcare services to the vast majority of its financially disadvantaged population becomes more and more evident. The government has consistently been allocating about 5% of the...
Health investment in areas like workforce, digital and infrastructure is critical to delivering better health outcomes and is also part of the solution to manage the economic recovery, both for productivity and job creation. PwC Australia recommends investment in...
On 1st March 2021, Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety tabled a Report: Care Dignity and Respect, which highlighted the declining quality of aged care for elderly Australians due to decreasing funding levels (AU$ 9.8bn cut over two...
Senior economist Faisal Basri during a webinar on Friday criticized the reduced healthcare budget the government had allocated in the 2021 State Budget (APBN). He highlighted the fact that the healthcare budget had dropped from Rp212.5 trillion in 2020 to...
The budget put forward by the Bangladesh Parliament has allocated a sizable amount to healthcare, which is a BDT 73 billion increase over the previous fiscal year. However, despite the increase of the allocation from the previous year of 23.44% and the...
During COVID-19 Malaysia seems to have gone back on its commitments of providing healthcare for its citizens as the medical budget sees a cut of 20.5%. This cut goes across almost all healthcare services resulting in a 74% decrease for...
В ближайшие 20 лет заболевания, связанные с табаком, приведут к потере производительности труда и затратам на здравоохранение, эквивалентным 12 000 млрд. долларов США во всем мире. В Кот-д'Ивуаре государство ежегодно тратит на лечение заболеваний, связанных с...
Over the next 20 years, tobacco-related illnesses will result in lost productivity and healthcare costs equivalent to Us$12,000 billion worldwide. In Côte d'Ivoire, the government spends an average of 28 billion CFA francs a year on medical treatment for...
"In Guinea, development aid is the second-largest source of funding for the health sector, covering almost a third of total health expenditure. The statement is from Dr Mohamed Lamine Yansané, representing the Guinean Minister of Health at a workshop to validate...
"In Guinea, development aid is the second-largest source of funding for the health sector, covering almost a third of total health expenditure. The statement is from Dr Mohamed Lamine Yansané, representing the Guinean Minister of Health at a workshop to validate...
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...
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...
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...
The Togolese government has announced that in 2021, the initiative will cost Togo more than 07 billion CFA francs. A clear commitment to improving physical conditions for pregnant women and newborns. The implementation of the "Santé maternelle et néonatale Muskoka"...
‘The issue of sustainable financing for new vaccines is particularly pertinent as Indonesia transitions away from extensive Gavi support towards a self-financing immunization system. As the current immunization system transitions, practical solutions must be found and...
