Chris George explores an innovative health financing model - embedded finance wherein healthcare services can be availed using a credit card with Zero Percent Interest Rate, thereby addressing the challenges of distress financing for health. Read more about it...
Since the pandemic, the number of India’s philanthropic collaboratives has more than doubled. These collaboratives mobilise funding from foreign and domestic philanthropy, high-net-worth individuals, corporate social responsibility funders, bilateral and multilateral...
Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, together with UNICEF, agreed to implement a set of projects worth $102.5 million. The Minister of Health of Uzbekistan B. Musaev and the head of the UNICEF country office M. Mammadzade signed the Road Map of activities between MoH and...
Kyrgyzstan is implementing digitalization of the healthcare system to help decrease disparities for the vulnerable and strengthen the health care system. On March 18, 2022, the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic held a round table to discuss Digital...
The New Zealand Government has allocated $22 million for the interim Māori Health Authority to begin funding health services for Māori population. The Māori Health Authority is the lead commissioner of health services targeted at Māori and the co-commission for other...
To get the ball rolling towards CSU, the Government of Cameroon and its partners have drawn up the terms of reference for the project to set up the experimental phase of CSU in 05 regions, starting at 2023. This experimental phase will focus on reproductive,...
Maurice Sarigda was awarded the degree of Doctor in Sociology with distinction " very honourable " on Friday January 14, 2022 at Joseph KI-Zerbo University. For this reason, he presented the fruit of his doctoral research on the elimination of health care...
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...
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...
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 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....
