Victory for the million pygmies after the vote on a bill enshrining positive discrimination in favor of marginalized indigenous peoples . This is the culmination of a long struggle by the Congolese civil society organization Dynamique des groupes des peuples...
Japan to fund $2.8 million project for Vietnam population vulnerable to Covid-19
The project "Mitigating Covid-19 impacts on vulnerable populations, ensuring national progress to achieve SDGs in Vietnam" will be co-implemented by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Vietnam's Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of...
Rohingya refugees and local Bangladeshis benefit from inclusive COVID-19 response
At the beginning of 2021, the Bangladesh government began the rollout of a national COVID-19 vaccination plan, with the first vaccinations taking place in the capital at the end of January. Over the next month, more than three million Bangladeshis received their first...
Deferment of Labour Codes delays health & income security to gig workers in India
Furthering the agenda of labour empowerment, India consolidated 29 central labour laws into four codes - The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security, 2020, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, and the Code on Wages,...
Center National de la Drépanocytose – The 2021 budget set at over 663 million FCFA
On March 30, the "Antoinette-Sassou- N'Guesso" sickle cell disease national reference center adopted its budget for the 2021 financial year, with revenue and expenditure totalling 663,325,000 CFA francs, during the 4th ordinary session of the management committee...
Firm commitments to eliminate obstetric fistula by 2030
In order to eliminate obstetric fistula by 2030 in West and Central Africa, several First Ladies of Africa are committed to mobilizing more resources and strengthening their support for the fight against this scourge at the high-level round table on the theme of "A...
India to extend social protection cover to 4.78 million domestic workers
The government of India has enacted the Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, now subsumed in the Code on Social Security, 2020 for providing social security to all unorganized workers including domestic workers. Ministry of Labour &...
Côte d’Ivoire: Targeted free healthcare explained
On February 16, the Ivorian Minister of Health unveiled the new measures that will be implemented, following the end of the generalized free health care scheme that has been in place in the country for the past 10 months. To this end, Thérèse N'DRI YOMAN invited...
Free healthcare for pregnant women will cost 7 billion in 2021
The Togolese government has announced that in 2021, the initiative will cost Togo more than 07 billion CFA francs. A clear commitment to improving physical conditions for pregnant women and newborns. The implementation of the "Santé maternelle et néonatale Muskoka"...
CMU: the 80% mark passed in Senegal’s Kaolack region
During his regional tour, the Director General of the Universal Health Coverage Agency expressed his satisfaction with the results achieved in Kaolack, during the year 2020. "We have paid up to one billion 67 million CFA francs, of which 345 million correspond to...
HEALTH FINANCING POLICY & IMPLEMENTATION IN FRAGILE & CONFLICT-AFFECTED SETTINGS.
This paper reviews existing health financing policy recommendations to considers whether, and if so how, these need revising given the challenging context of Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations (FCAS). The paper aims to inform policy i.e. the decisions and...
UNICEF and P4H support Covid Impact Study in Tanzania
UNICEF and P4H are jointly supporting a study on Covid-19 impact on youth and adolescents, their families and communities, including impacts on their access to health.
Haiti – Country Mapping : Large Scale Cash Transfers for Covid-19 Response (9/2020)
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The Social Protection and Health Action Research and Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS) Network is going to organize a virtual conference on Bridging the SDGs to optimise health-related social protection from 2-3 December 2020.
The Social Protection and Health Action Research and Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS) Network is going to organize a virtual conference on Bridging the SDGs to optimise health-related social protection from 2-3 December 2020. The main objectives: • To share...
The challenge of providing health services to 211.000 internally displaced people
The humanitarian situation in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique significantly deteriorated over the last eight months, due to consecutive climatic shocks, insecurity and violence, leading to wide displacements of people, disruption of livelihoods and lack of access...