This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of healthcare financing in Egypt by assessing five financing sources, out-of-pocket payments, an earmarked cigarette tax, direct taxes, indirect taxes, social health insurance and private health insurance. It provides a...
Lebanon has received US$34 million under the World Bank's Lebanon Health Resilience Project to support vaccine procurement. The financing will provide vaccines for over 2 million individuals. The vaccines are expected to arrive in Lebanon by early February...
The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affects Malaysia’s economy and household income, especially lower income families. To minimize the impact of economic recession and alleviate the poverty from the pandemic, Malaysia approved budget for 2022 with priorities to support...
Since the establishment of Ghana’s NHIS in 2003, the country has made substantial progress towards its goal of universal health care. As of 2014, the NHIS covered 10.5 million people which is 40% of Ghana’s population. The total number of inpatient and outpatient...
In Philippines, the Department of Health has established the cancer assistance fund to support the Cancer and Supportive-Palliative Medicines Access Program (CSPMAP). The CSPMAP will provide free medicines to cancer patients, aiming to reduce the out-of-the pocket...
On 6th October, 2021, Ghana received over 500,000 doses of Astrazeneca vaccines from Germany, Denmark, Norway and Iceland through the COVAX facility to assist its vaccination programme. Receiving the vaccines, chairman of the health commodity group...
Following the global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, the government of Ghana planned to establish a national vaccine institute. The mandate of the institute would include establishing local vaccine manufacturing plants, deepening research and development for vaccines....
On February 9, 2016, the agreement between Georgia and the European Investment Bank, which was aimed at improving the municipal infrastructure, entered into force. However, On December 21, 2020, the contract was reprogrammed and due to the challenges caused by the...
World Bank (WB) allocated Additional financing (AF) within the Georgia Emergency COVID-19 Response Project and will finance procurement and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. To ensure safe and effective systems for COVID-19 vaccine procurement and deployment,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $ 25 million grant to help the Government of Tajikistan procure and implement COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen the country's capacity to implement the vaccination program. “COVID-19 vaccines save lives and are vital to...
Eurasian Development Bank will allocate a $ 3 million grant to Armenia to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. During the meeting on Friday, the government approved a proposal to sign an agreement between Armenia and the Eurasian Development Bank to provide a grant to finance...
WHO has published a report titled "Budgetary space for health in Ukraine. Policy document to support budget preparation dialogue for 2021". This report describes how Ukraine was kick-starting dialogue on increasing funding for health care; a challenging task in...
Rwanda introduced CBHI as a vehicle for universal health insurance and universal health coverage. First introduced in 1999/2000, CBHI has since faced chronic financial deficit. In this peer reviewed study, the authors assessed the challenges facing CBHI financial...
A stronger national health financing system provides a stronger foundation for the broader health system. Health financing thus serves as pivot upon which other health system building blocks revolve and rest. Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and all the...
The 2017 health financing policy and strategy has been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Nigeria country page. The strategy provides evidence-based guidance to the federal, state and local governments as well as other actors in Nigeria’s health system...
