{"id":987653418,"date":"2022-01-31T03:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/togo-fcfa-19-billion-planned-for-universal-health-coverage-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T03:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:15:19","slug":"togo-fcfa-19-billion-planned-for-universal-health-coverage-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/togo-fcfa-19-billion-planned-for-universal-health-coverage-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Togo: FCFA 19 billion planned for universal health coverage in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this year, the Togolese government plans to devote 19 billion FCFA to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), according to official information. This represents 18% of the resources allocated to the Ministry of Health (which stand at 105.4 billion FCFA), according to the details of Togo&#8217;s Finance Law, fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This endowment comes just a few months after the adoption of a law on universal health coverage (CSU), designed to enable the Togolese people to &#8220;<em>&nbsp;benefit from quality health care at an affordable cost.&nbsp;&#8220;,<\/em> indicated&nbsp; Yawa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTsegan\/status\/1448076856830406663?t=ZI1nDiWa6OsZ9Rap3HmwMg&amp;s=19\">Djigbodi Ts\u00e8gan, President of the National Assembly<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This law, which institutes universal health insurance in Togo, marks the extension of the&nbsp;project for compulsory health insurance, whose pilot phase, deemed encouraging by the Togolese authorities, is being run by the National Health Insurance Institute (INAM).<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year, Togo signed a $70 million&nbsp;(38.5 billion FCFA) financing agreement with the World Bank for the universal health coverage project. The aim is above all to reach the most vulnerable citizens, especially pregnant women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this year, the Togolese government plans to devote 19 billion FCFA to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), according to official information. This represents 18% of the resources allocated to the Ministry of Health (which stand at 105.4 billion FCFA), according to the details of Togo&#8217;s Finance Law, fiscal year 2022. This endowment comes just a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987527862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987527862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}