The National Health Insurance Management Authority provides an update on the performance and status of the Zambia National Health Insurance Scheme
The board of the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) was established in 2019 to facilitate the implementation of the country’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). In this circular, the NHIMA provides an update on the milestones attained and...
The Ministry of Health inaugurates the Board of Directors of the Gambia National Health Insurance Scheme authority
The ministry of health on 5th May, 2022 inaugurated the board of directors of the newly established National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) authority. Speaking at the event the Minister for Health Doctor Ahmadou Lamin Samateh said this move is long conceived by the...
Somalia celebrates Universal Health Coverage day: translating the dream of ‘health for all’ into a reality
The 2021 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day's theme was ‘Leaving no one’s health behind: Investing in health systems for all.’ This theme is relevant for countries worldwide, including Somalia, particularly after the secondary impacts of the COVID-19...
Gambia Minister of Health tables the National Health Insurance bill
On Monday 8th November 2021, Gambia’s Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Lamin Samateh tabled the National Health Insurance (NHI) bill 2021 before lawmakers with the hope of securing its legislative consideration, scrutiny, and adoption. The Minister made the following...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2022 National Health Insurance bill into law
The Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, 19th May, 2022 announced that he signed into law the 2022 National Health Insurance bill. The President made the following remarks, As part of our healthcare reforms, I have signed into law the recently passed 2022...
Sierra Leone is the first country to publish a report based on the WHO Health Financing Progress Matrix
In 2019, the WHO developed a Health Financing Progress Matrix for countries to assess how far they have come in preparing their health financing systems to achieve financial risk protection and attain progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Sierra Leone...
Nigeria gets over three million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
In April, 2022 the Nigeria government received 3,002,400 doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines. Speaking at the handover ceremony in Abuja, the executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, said the...
Indonesia government to gradually reduce COVID treatment subsidies
Due to the downward trend of COVID-19 cases, the Indonesia government will slowly stop subsidizing the treatment costs of COVID-19 patients. The source of funding for COVID-19 treatment will be shifted from the government to the national health insurance program or...
Australia has committed for more investment to strengthen the health system
To provide ongoing social health protection against COVID-19, the Australian government has committed to the Long Term National Health Plan through strategic investments in Australia's health system with the allocation of $132 billion for health in 2022–23. This...
New Zealand has released health budget 2022
For New Zealand’s health budget 2022, $13.2 billion has been allocated to the health sector over the next four years, aiming to reduce cost pressures and create new services. While $1.8 billion in new spending in the coming year aims to address historic cost...
“L’absence de couverture par une complémentaire santé en France en 2019. Premiers résultats de l’Enquête santé européenne (EHIS)”
IRDES (Institut de recherche et documentation en économie de la santé) vient de publier son No 268 de Questions d'économie de la santé : "L'absence de couverture par une complémentaire santé en France en 2019. Premiers résultats de l'Enquête santé européenne...
The African Union starts the implementation of the Health Financing Tracker
The African Union (AU) has held the Africa Leadership Meeting - Investing in Health (ALM) Initiative in Johannesburg on 23rd May, 2022, with presence of representatives of African countries. The objective of the meeting was to exchange on the exercise of the Health...
Re-learning through the pandemic: India’s COVID-19 health financing response
Authors: Grace Achungura, Technical Officer (Health Financing for UHC-HCF), WHO Country Office, India Rahul Reddy, Health Systems & Financing Expert, India Mita Choudhury, Associate Professor, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy Jaidev Anand,...
New document on the COVID-19 epidemic and public health expenditure in China is now available
This paper aimed to explore how the Chinese government controls the COVID-19 epidemic from the perspective of public health expenditure and policy. Findings showed that public health expenditure and policy played an important role in the governance and control of the...
Toward Universal Coverage : Turkey’s Green Card Program for the Poor
This case study unravels Turkey's path to universal coverage. It outlines both the transformation of the health system and the performance of the 'Yesil Kart', the Green Card program, a non-contributory health insurance scheme for the poor. Initially launched in 1992,...