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NEWS | 16 Aug 2021
Why Investors Should be Optimistic About Vietnam’s Healthcare Industry
Vietnam
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DOCUMENT | 16 Aug 2021
Securing Domestic Financing for Universal Health Coverage: Lessons in Process | HFG (hfgproject.org)https://www.hfgproject.org/securing-domestic-financing-universal-health-coverage-lessons-process/
Demand for health care is growing and external donor support is becoming more uncertain. Consequently, domestic resource mobilization (DRM) for health has emerged as an important topic in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This brief articulates the lessons...
DOCUMENT | 15 Aug 2021
The incidence of health financing in South Africa
South Africa
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...
DOCUMENT | 15 Aug 2021
Paying for and receiving benefits from health services in South Africa: is the health system equitable?
South Africa
This research paper examines the equity in the delivery and financing of health care for both the public and the private sectors in South Africa. Using nationally representative datasets and standard methodologies for assessing progressivity in health care financing...
DOCUMENT | 15 Aug 2021
Catastrophic health expenditures arising from out-of-pocket payments: Evidence from South African income and expenditure surveys
South Africa
Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) represents out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health care which exceed a specified threshold of household’s income or household’s capacity to pay. This peer reviewed article examines CHE and the potential for such payments to...
DOCUMENT | 15 Aug 2021
Securing sustainable financing: A priority for health programs in Namibia
Namibia
Namibia is a signatory to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 3 states that member states must ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all, at all ages. One of the targets under this goal is to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC),...
NEWS | 15 Aug 2021
South Africa COVID-19 vaccine producer receives €600 million financial support
South Africa
One of the potential approaches to increasing vaccine equity as part of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, is reducing Africa's reliance on global vaccine supply chains. This can be enhanced by transferring competencies for vaccine production from upper...
NEWS | 15 Aug 2021
Namibia gets US$270.83 million to address the COVID-19 pandemic
Namibia
The government of Namibia received approximately US$270.83 million under the Rapid Financing Instrument to help the country address urgent balance of payments and fiscal financing needs stemming from the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Namibia has been...
NEWS | 15 Aug 2021
Health financing documents available
South Africa
Documents on health financing and its implications on universal health coverage have been posted in the document section. To download, check the link in the related document section.
DOCUMENT | 07 Aug 2021
Does tax-based health financing offer protection from financial catastrophe? Findings from a household economic impact survey of ischemic heart disease in Malaysia
Malaysia
Universal health coverage (UHC) protects the households from falling into poverty due to catastrophic health spending. Malaysia, an upper middle-income country, has achieved UHC through tax-based financing model similar to the Sweden model. This study measures the...
DOCUMENT | 07 Aug 2021
A spatial analysis of out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Malawi
Malawi
Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on health remain high in many low- and middle-income countries despite policy efforts aiming to reduce these health costs by targeting their hotspots. Hotspot targeting remains inadequate, particularly where the OOP expenditures are...
NEWS | 07 Aug 2021
Bangladesh borrows $940M for COVID-19
Bangladesh
Bangladesh borrows $940 M from external loan to finance vaccine purchase, aiming to enhance COVID-19 vaccine coverage. This loan will be used for purchasing 44.7M coronavirus vaccine doses which could vaccinate more than 20 million people. The...
NEWS | 07 Aug 2021
New article on does tax-based health financing offer protection from financial catastrophe? Findings from a household economic impact survey of ischemic heart disease in Malaysia now available on documents section
Malaysia
Universal health coverage (UHC) protects the households from falling into poverty due to catastrophic health spending. Malaysia, an upper middle-income country, has achieved UHC through tax-based financing model similar to the Sweden model. This study measures the...
NEWS | 06 Aug 2021
Health ministry given extra funding for Covid-19 fight
Vietnam
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NEWS | 04 Aug 2021
Mali:Malian parliament earmarks FCFA 32 billion for Covid-19
Mali
These funds, approved by the CNT, will supplement the budget deficits earmarked for the fight against Covid in Mali. According to Minister of Health 6.647 billion CFA francs have been injected by Mali's development partners in the fight against the...