DOCUMENT | 10 Mar 2022
Cameroon: CSU trial project in 5 regions
Cameroon
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NEWS | 04 Mar 2022
Webinar: Health financing in FCAS: when humanitarian concerns dominate
Many regions and countries are now facing emergencies, acute and chronic, with challenges to security, political settlements and health security. These demand new approaches to health financing that learn from developmental and humanitarian approaches and explore...
NEWS | 04 Mar 2022
Mandatory for employers to buy primary care plan for migrant workers in Singapore from Apr 1
Singapore
To enable affordable health care and financial risk protection among migrant workers in Singapore, employers are mandated to buy primary care plans for migrant workers as part of their work pass requirements, effective on April 1. The new regulation will be applied to...
NEWS | 03 Mar 2022
Video recording now available: Financing Universal Health Coverage despite instability – a webinar organized by WHO and AFRAFRA
In many countries, instability is undermining the state's ability to exercise its sovereign functions and provide basic services to its population, to the point of undermining its legitimacy. These "fragile" situations raise major challenges for progress towards...
NEWS | 01 Mar 2022
Chad: Pre-dialogue on maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health, Mara 27-30.01.2022
Chad
The national pre-dialogue workshop on maternal, neonatal and infant mortality took place from 27-30.01.2022 in Mara. During the conference, health professionals, partners and stakeholders will spend four days working on the themes selected for discussion, identifying...
DOCUMENT | 14 Feb 2022
Assessment of health insurance options for Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
NEWS | 14 Feb 2022
President Koroma launches social health insurance scheme
Sierra Leone
The president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma launched the Sierra Leone Social Health Insurance Scheme(SLeSHI) on Friday, 16 February. The scheme is meant to provide Universal Healthcare Coverage for all and sundry across the country. While...
NEWS | 11 Feb 2022
Côte d’Ivoire: Towards the extension of CMU to farmers
Côte d’Ivoire
Under the impetus of the Programme d'Appui aux Stratégies Sociales (PASS), the initiative for social protection in rural areas (iPS-MR) has set up a high-level cross-sectoral cooperation through an innovative public-private partnership involving the NOVARTIS Group....
NEWS | 09 Feb 2022
Côte d’Ivoire: 2.5 million people to benefit from RAM
Côte d’Ivoire
In Côte d'Ivoire, Couverture Maladie Universelle (CMU) comprises two schemes. A contributory Basic General Scheme (RGB), at 1,000 FCFA per month per person, and a non-contributory Medical Assistance Scheme (RAM) for the poor who were excluded from the health system....
NEWS | 09 Feb 2022
Côte d’Ivoire: 2.5 million people to benefit from RAM
Côte d’Ivoire
In Côte d'Ivoire, Couverture Maladie Universelle (CMU) comprises two schemes. A contributory Basic General Scheme (RGB), at 1,000 FCFA per month per person, and a non-contributory Medical Assistance Scheme (RAM) for the poor who were excluded from the health system....
NEWS | 04 Feb 2022
Family members of the migrant workers to be protected under health insurance in Nepal
Nepal
To enable access to health services and financial protection among family members of the Nepali migrant workers, the Health Insurance Board has begun the process to include them under the health insurance following the Health Insurance Act-2074 BS. Currently, the...
NEWS | 01 Feb 2022
Financing Universal Health Coverage despite instability – a webinar organized by WHO and AFRAFRA
In many countries, instability is undermining the state's ability to exercise its sovereign functions and provide basic services to its population, to the point of undermining its legitimacy. These "fragile" situations raise major challenges for progress towards...
NEWS | 01 Feb 2022
NIGER: FCFA 24.5 billion to strengthen resilience
Niger
The Minister of the Interior and Decentralization, Mr Hamadou Adamou Souley, presided over the official launch of the Niger-Chad Emergency Development Program (PDU) in Niamey on the morning of January 26. The aim of the program is to help improve living conditions and...
DOCUMENT | 26 Jan 2022
Equity and determinants in universal health coverage indicators in Iraq, 2000–2030: a national and subnational study
Iraq
This study aims to examine inequality and determinants associated with Iraq’s progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) targets. The authors used nationally representative population-based household surveys in Iraq conducted between 2000 and 2018. The analysis...
NEWS | 26 Jan 2022
Presenting documents on universal health coverage and the COVID 19 response in Iraq
Iraq
Here’s presenting a research paper on the factors that influence financial risk protection and health services as barriers to universal health coverage for vulnerable families in Iraq. Another research article lists out the health financing challenges that Iraq faced...