This is a major step towards improving the living and working conditions of journalists in the private press. "We felt it was important to subscribe to INAM health insurance for our union members, because today we work in a precarious situation. Almost all journalists...
Журналисты пользуются медицинской страховкой INAM
Это серьезный шаг на пути к улучшению условий жизни и работы журналистов в частной прессе. "Мы посчитали необходимым оформить медицинскую страховку INAM для членов нашего профсоюза, поскольку сегодня мы работаем в условиях нестабильности. Почти все журналисты не...
SAINT-LOUIS – PRESENTATION OF MEMBERSHIP CARDS FOR A MUTUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY
In the commune of Ross Béthio, several children of migrants returning to the Saint-Louis region received their membership cards for the commune's Mutuelle de Santé. The operation is on the initiative of the leaders of the Jeunesse Espoir organization, as...
National Assembly opts for free healthcare for minorities
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...
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,...
WHO publication on value-based health services
From value for money to value-based health services: a twenty-first century shift Overview: Health policy makers around the world have long shown interest in the value created by health systems and this preoccupation will likely only intensify in the current context...
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...
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...
Indian households spent more on food, less on healthcare during first lockdown due to COVID-19
Since June 2020, various studies have suggested that the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in India caused severe disruptions to the food supply chain, large levels of unemployment, an increase in vulnerabilities for migrant workers, and gendered violence at home, among...
Курение в Кот-д’Ивуаре: ежегодные затраты на лечение составляют 28 млрд. франков КФА
В ближайшие 20 лет заболевания, связанные с табаком, приведут к потере производительности труда и затратам на здравоохранение, эквивалентным 12 000 млрд. долларов США во всем мире. В Кот-д'Ивуаре государство ежегодно тратит на лечение заболеваний, связанных с...
Smoking in Côte d’Ivoire: the annual cost of treatment amounts to 28 billion CFA francs
Over the next 20 years, tobacco-related illnesses will result in lost productivity and healthcare costs equivalent to Us$12,000 billion worldwide. In Côte d'Ivoire, the government spends an average of 28 billion CFA francs a year on medical treatment for...
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 &...
Costa de Marfil: Explicación de la asistencia sanitaria gratuita específica
El 16 de febrero, el Ministro de Sanidad de Costa de Marfil desveló en las nuevas medidas que se aplicarán tras el fin del régimen general de asistencia sanitaria gratuita, vigente en el país desde hacía 10 meses. Para ello, Thérèse N'DRI YOMAN invitó a los...
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...