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...
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...
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....
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In 2014, the government of Nigeria implemented the basic health care provision fund (BHCPF) with the aim of providing adequate care and services at the primary health care (PHC) level, mostly for the vulnerable population, so as to reduce out-of-pocket expenses....
An estimated 1.48 million people in Kenya are pushed into poverty every year because of out-of-pocket (OOP) and outpatient health expenses. Kenyans from poor households are the most vulnerable and experience economic hardship each time an OOP payment is necessary....
In this study, the researchers monitor the progress that Uganda has made in ensuring financial risk protection to attain universal health coverage (UHC) as a signatory to the sustainable development goals. Monitoring progress towards UHC requires tracking of progress...
The government of Kenya announced that it is still on track to attaining UHC by 2030. During the state address in Dec, 2021, president Kenyatta urged the senate to expedite the consideration of the 2021 national hospital insurance fund (amendments) bill which was...
