Malaysia allocates RM3.1 billion for implementing Covid-19 special assistance (BKC), aiming to reduce the impacts of COVID-19, starting from September 6. BKC provides to 4.4 million households that include 1.1 million single senior citizens and 4.5 million single...
New Zealand paid over $876 million for the Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme so far to support more than a quarter of the country's employees affected by COVID-19. Of the 781,364 jobs are covered under the scheme, 14 percent were for self-employed workers....
Extract from the Council of Ministers held this Wednesday, September 23, 2021 under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Niger, SEM Mohamed BAZOUM. The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft decree creating a social public establishment called the...
In recent years, Senegal has embarked on several strategies to finance healthcare, with the risk of a certain fragmentation. Visit strategic plan for the development of universal health coverage 2013-2017 aims to cover at least 75% ...
In August, representatives from WHO and ILO met to discuss their work to support Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and strengthen social health protection in Ethiopia. The ILO team gave an overview of the PROSPECTS project, a new Partnership on Inclusive Jobs and...
Although health care in Botswana is highly subsidized and mainly financed through government taxes (68 %), 4.2% of the households still pay out of pocket exposing them to the risk of catastrophic health expenditures. In Botswana, 83% of the general population and 58%...
The Wezou program complements CARMMA (Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa), whose scope of action is limited to Caesarean sections. This program will progressively integrate all services for pregnant women, from confirmation of...
In Togo, the government is taking a decisive step towards making universal health insurance a reality. After several reviews, the draft bill instituting the measure was adopted by the Council of Ministers on Thursday September 09. This draft bill sets out the legal...
Singapore provides a top-up of $200 to all Singaporean children aged between 0 and 6 years in 2021. The top-up will be added to their Child Development Account (CDA) from mid-Sep 2021. Approximately 250,000 children will receive this benefit. This top-up is part...
Financial health protection is one of the priority areas in the move towards universal health coverage (UHC) (WHO, 2010). As the drive towards UHC is gaining momentum globally, the need for assessing levels of financial health protection in countries, particularity...
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the figures are alarming.... 42% of AIDS patients admitted to Lubumbashi provincial hospital die for lack of money for treatment. These statistics were presented at the Journées Scientifiques, organized jointly by the...
The Togolese government launched the "Wezou" program this week. This is a specific program dedicated to the care of pregnant women and newborns. It is intended to anticipate the universal health insurance program and significantly reduce maternal and neonatal...
On Thursday August 26, 2021, the Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie universelle (CNAMU) handed out 1,115 insurance cards to indigent people in Ouahigouya, in the Nord region. These long-awaited cards will enable beneficiaries to obtain quality care free of charge,...
The basic essential healthcare benefit package (EHB) policy interventions aim to optimize efficiency while extending coverage by increasing equity of access to the defined benefits. Many low and middle-income countries introduced or updated EHBs in the 2000s. Uganda’s...
Uganda Government has continued to strengthen the country’s health system by initiating policy reforms aimed at enhancing equity in health care with the goal of attaining universal health coverage. These reforms include the abolition of user fees and the introduction...
