Until recently there was no overarching platform for coordinating social protection schemes across ministries and agencies in Cambodia. With support from Germany and the United States, the General Secretariat of the National Social Protection Council is now playing...
To inform efforts to improve Cambodia’s social health protection system and advance universal health coverage, health care-seeking and out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) were assessed using the 2016 Cambodia Socioeconomic Survey data. This study focuses on the poorest...
The Phnom Penh Post, 20 November 2019: "Workers and employees in the private sector will receive the same benefits as those in the public sector if they pay their income tax and fulfil other legal requirements.The recently passed Law on Social Security Schemes states...
For children under 5, PECIME basket on the entire pyramid 3 appeals per year on average for children under 5 years of age 15 billion spent on children under 5 in 2017, 16 billion in 2018. Cost of Caesarean section: 2.2 billion in 2018 And even more so in the report...
By Augustine Asante, Ir Por, Bart Jacobs and Virginia Wiseman Universal health coverage (UHC) appears to be on everybody’s agenda these days, especially low- and middle- income countries (LIMCs). But achieving UHC goes beyond having it on one’s agenda; it requires,...
Participants, findings, recommendations and next steps for overhauling the free program in Niger.
The meeting of experts to overhaul Niger's free healthcare system was held today, Thursday, October 17, 2019, as planned. The experts come from Lasdel (political anthropology research center), the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Finance (Budget &...
Paper on User Fees in Cameroon / UNAIDS , August 2019
In May 2013, France launched the Initiative Solidarité Santé Sahel1 (I3S) aimed at facilitating financial access to healthcare for children in Sahelian countries by supporting politically committed countries in setting up solidarity-based healthcare access systems. Of...
This report gives an account of free healthcare in Niger (or exemption from payment for healthcare services). It does not go into detail about free travel for pregnant women and children under 5, which is the subject of another report, but describes all the other free...
Niger's Ministry of Health has commissioned a WHO study "to determine the benefits of free health care and other insurance mechanisms with a view to setting up Universal Health Coverage in Niger". The ToR for the study stipulates that it will be carried out by a...
EVALUATION OF THE NIGER-UNICEF 2014-2018 COOPERATION PROGRAM AS PART OF THE FREE HEALTHCARE POLICY IN NIGER
To inform decision making about premium collection to expand social health protection in Cambodia, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project undertook a case study of a CBHI scheme to assess the cost of premium...
On September 19, 2019, starting at 10 a.m., a working meeting was held in the conference room of the Ministry of the Civil Service, Labor and Social Protection on the financing of Universal Health Coverage (CSU) in Burkina Faso. This meeting is the first in a series...
On September 19, 2019, starting at 10 a.m., a working meeting was held in the conference room of the Ministry of the Civil Service, Labor and Social Protection on the financing of Universal Health Coverage (CSU) in Burkina Faso. This meeting is the first in a series...
