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Health financing documents available
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.

Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments
Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments
Australia

Australia provides the COVID-19 Disaster Payment divided into three different rates based on the number of hours of work lost by an eligible recipient and whether or not they are receiving an income support payment: $200 per week for those in receipt of an...

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...

CONGO: 6.5 billion FCFA for the Covid19 response
CONGO: 6.5 billion FCFA for the Covid19 response
Congo

This project is part of the implementation of free healthcare for pregnant women and children, and fee waivers for the poorest households. The two parliamentary chambers  of the Republic of Congo adopted  on July 27 in Brazzaville, the bill authorizing...

Sudan: Moving towards universal health coverage (UHC)
Sudan

This brief discusses Sudan’s existing national plans and policies to achieve UHC. Among the national plans include the health financing reforms which led to the expansion of the Sudanese National Health Insurance (NHI) from civil servants and formal sector employees...

Sudanese returning migrants to access health insurance
Sudanese returning migrants to access health insurance
Sudan

In an effort to achieve universal health coverage, the government of Sudan signed an  EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration which ensures that  Sudanese returnees access healthcare under the country’s National Health Insurance...

Revisiting Ayushman Bharat Scheme: Win-win or win-lose?
Revisiting Ayushman Bharat Scheme: Win-win or win-lose?
India

Disha Bhanot, Assistant Professor at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai writes about how COVID-19 has exposed the dark underbelly of our healthcare system and health insurance schemes may have little chance of achieving sustained benefits. With an...

Senegal: CMU extended to wards of the Nation
Senegal: CMU extended to wards of the Nation
Senegal

On Tuesday, the Universal Health Coverage Agency (ANACMU) and the National Office for Wards of the Nation (ONPN) signed a partnership agreement aimed at extending health care to these wards. According to ONPN Director Mamadou Saliou Daillo, "this partnership agreement...