Congo has instituted Universal Health Insurance Coverage (CAMU) in the 2021 Finance Act. This new tax is one of the new elements instituted in this law, the popularization campaign for which was launched on Monday February 22, 2021 in Brazzaville. Initiated by...
Part of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing has published a policy brief titled “Co-payment policy: considerations for Ukraine”, which contains policy recommendations regarding co-payments [1]. In its description that...
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...
The funding provides for a results-based approach to encourage the use of government systems and augments previous financing that has supported Indonesia’s health systems strengthening. This investment will support the government's free vaccination program to reach...
The Government Council, meeting on Thursday June 17, adopted two bills. The first relates to the Sheikh Zaïd Ibn Soltan Foundation and the second to the Sheikh Khalifa Ibn Zaïd Foundation. Here are the details of the changes.
The Government Council, meeting on Thursday June 17, adopted two bills. The first relates to the Sheikh Zaïd Ibn Soltan Foundation and the second to the Sheikh Khalifa Ibn Zaïd Foundation. Here are the details of the changes.
Rising healthcare costs in The Philippines owing to inadequate public investment prevents citizens from going for regular checkups and the country from achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). To address this, three laws that have come into legislation in the recent...
The Royal Gazette website on Tuesday published an emergency decree allowing the Ministry of Finance to borrow money to tackle the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 outbreak among other things Of the THB 500 billion THB 30 billion will be allocated for...
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...
The U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project conducted analyses to understand the impact of COVID-19 on subnational government budgets and households’ healthcare use and spending. This work was undertaken in support of the...
Covid 19 has exposed gaps in the budgetary allocations of the subnational governments in Indonesia that resulted in increase of out-pocket health expenditure and catastrophic household spending on health expenditure for health care services. A recent study by Health...
The COVID-19 war and commitment towards UHC hinge on the criticality of designing strategic health financing policies in India. The pandemic provides the window of opportunity to reflect on our health financing objectives to strengthen the health system resilience and...
Indonesia will expand its COVID-19 recovery budget this year from earlier targets to 619 trillion rupiah ($44.20 billion) to provide better support for the health sector as well as to help businesses, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. The latest increase...
Malaysia's government will increase COVID-19 healthcare spending by another 200 million ringgit ($48.3 million) to help tackle a surge in cases during recent weeks, the state news agency reported on Saturday. The funding boost brings the government's total healthcare...
