Since the pandemic, the number of India’s philanthropic collaboratives has more than doubled. These collaboratives mobilise funding from foreign and domestic philanthropy, high-net-worth individuals, corporate social responsibility funders, bilateral and multilateral...
Niger: FBR national strategic plan validation workshop
Workshop to validate the national strategic plan for results-based financing (RBF) and free healthcare in the health sector. Event Time : 05 Apr 2022 7:00 am to 05 Apr 2022 10:30 amTimezone: UTC+01:00Event is Conference : No
The government of Eswatini urged to introduce COVID-19 to increase fiscal space
The COVID-19 pandemic came with a lot of uncertainties and has had a significant impact on not only the health sector but also on the economy especially in low and middle income countries. However, it also presented an opportunity for governments to be innovative in...
Ghana to establish epidemics fund to address financing challenges
Discussions to set up a dedicated fund for epidemics took centre stage at a forum in Accra to collate input for the 2022 budget statement and economic policy. Proponents said the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had made such a fund more relevant, hence the need for...
Budget to finance Social Health Insurance benefits is defined for 2022
As part of regular communication with the public, the Social Health Insurance Fund of Kazakhstan publishes explanatory materials for the purpose of awareness building. A ecent publication reminds readers that mandatory social health insurance system was...
Co-financing mandatory health insurance in Azerbaijan postponed for another year
The introduction of co-financing within the mandatory health insurance in Azerbaijan has been postponed for another year, Report news agency informs. Originally, it was planned to introduce co-financing starting from January 1, 2022. Examples when...
Niger: FBR strategic plan enrichment workshop
On March 8 and 9, 2021, a workshop to enrich the strategic plan for results-based financing (RBF) and free healthcare in the health sector is being held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Niamey. The meeting will be attended by the technical and financial partners of the...
$663mln spent to combat COVID-19 pandemic in Bahrain
Bahrain spent an estimated BD250 million on healthcare measures related to the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the last two years. It includes the amount for treatment, testing, facemasks, gloves and vaccines among others. The country is working towards achieving the...
How costly is the first prenatal clinic visit? Analysis of out-of-pocket expenditure in rural Sri Lanka – a country with free maternal health care
Sri Lanka provides health care service free-of-charge, including maternal health care. This study aimed to examine the magnitude of and factors associated with out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPs) during the first prenatal clinic visit by pregnant women in Anuradhapura...
New document on analysis of out-of-pocket expenditure in rural Sri Lanka is now available
Sri Lanka provides health care service free-of-charge, including maternal health care. This study aimed to examine the magnitude of and factors associated with out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPs) during the first prenatal clinic visit by pregnant women in Anuradhapura...
To contain costs, Kazakhstan’s Government is capping expenses for hospital construction
Under the State Health Development Program for years 2020-2025, adopted in 2019 and reframed into a National Project "Healthy Nation" in 2021, Kazakhstan has planned to build 20 large hospitals to replace multiple existing worn-out hospitals accross the country....
The Philippines 2022 national budget secured free COVID-19 testing
The Philippines has allocated P17.85 billion under the 2022 national budget for Covid-19 testing, aiming to ensure affordability and accessibility to the tests among its population. The funds will be allocated to the state laboratories so that more free tests...
Forgone healthcare and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis
This study aimed to examine the burden of out-of-pocket payment and forgone healthcare in Bangladesh, and further explores the inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and forgone healthcare at the national and sub-national levels. Data came from the...
Assessment of health insurance options for Sierra Leone
Viet Nam’s COVID-19 fight costs over US$$3.2 billion
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