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Vulnerable people Archives - Page 26 of 128 - P4H Network
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Côte d’Ivoire: A plea for health insurance for farmers
Côte d’Ivoire: A plea for health insurance for farmers
Côte d’Ivoire

The Minister of Employment and Social Protection, Me Adama Kamara, has pleaded with the government and the President of the Republic for health and retirement insurance for Ivorian farmers. Minister Kamara, who is also Chairman of the Interministerial Committee...

Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments
Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments
Australia

Australia provides the COVID-19 Disaster Payment divided into three different rates based on the number of hours of work lost by an eligible recipient and whether or not they are receiving an income support payment: $200 per week for those in receipt of an...

A spatial analysis of out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Malawi
Malawi

Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on health remain high in many low- and middle-income countries despite policy efforts aiming to reduce these health costs by targeting their hotspots. Hotspot targeting remains inadequate, particularly where the OOP expenditures are...

Sudan: Moving towards universal health coverage (UHC)
Sudan

This brief discusses Sudan’s existing national plans and policies to achieve UHC. Among the national plans include the health financing reforms which led to the expansion of the Sudanese National Health Insurance (NHI) from civil servants and formal sector employees...

Sudanese returning migrants to access health insurance
Sudanese returning migrants to access health insurance
Sudan

In an effort to achieve universal health coverage, the government of Sudan signed an  EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration which ensures that  Sudanese returnees access healthcare under the country’s National Health Insurance...

Revisiting Ayushman Bharat Scheme: Win-win or win-lose?
Revisiting Ayushman Bharat Scheme: Win-win or win-lose?
India

Disha Bhanot, Assistant Professor at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai writes about how COVID-19 has exposed the dark underbelly of our healthcare system and health insurance schemes may have little chance of achieving sustained benefits. With an...

Senegal: CMU extended to wards of the Nation
Senegal: CMU extended to wards of the Nation
Senegal

On Tuesday, the Universal Health Coverage Agency (ANACMU) and the National Office for Wards of the Nation (ONPN) signed a partnership agreement aimed at extending health care to these wards. According to ONPN Director Mamadou Saliou Daillo, "this partnership agreement...

Malawi Budget Brief 2020/2021: Living the promise to leave no one behind
Malawi

This budget brief reviews the Malawi national budget 2020/21 and its relation to health.  Specifically, the brief analyzes the size and composition of the National Budget, with a special focus on allocations to key social sectors that benefit children. The brief also...

The Sierra Leone free health care initiative: process and effectiveness review
Sierra Leone

The introduction of the free health care initiative in 2010, which removed user fees for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five was supported by earlier evidence that showed health-related financial costs were a major barrier to mothers and children...