India’s historic effort to expand health insurance to individuals living Below Poverty Line
One of the most ambitious health care reforms in history, Ayushman Bharat, was rolled out in 2018 in India. It is expected to provide health insurance coverage to 100 million below poverty line families in a country where two-thirds of all health expenditures are out...
Penetration and coverage of government-funded health insurance schemes in India
Global health policy advocates suggest that health insurance could provide a safety net to low-income families by reducing financial risk, improving access to care for better health outcomes. To achieve such UHC outcomes, the national and state governments in India...
Round Table Discussion held with Gov’t Top Officials and WB: “KAZAKHSTAN: HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK”
World Bank (WB) country office for Kazakhstan held a high-level Round Table Discussion titled: KAZAKHSTAN: HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK today, on April 27, 2021 via zoom. This meeting was devoted to promting State Officials to recognize the need to invest into...
Japan to fund $2.8 million project for Vietnam population vulnerable to Covid-19
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/japan-to-fund-2-8-million-project-for-vietnamese-vulnerable-to-covid-19-4268466.html The project "Mitigating Covid-19 impacts on vulnerable populations, ensuring national progress to achieve SDGs in Vietnam" will be...
State Budget 2021-2023 approved: Health spending protected from cuts
In a Law adopted on December 2, 2020 No.379-VІ ЗРК, Government of Kazakhstan has approved "Republican budget for years 2021-2023" - which outlines all state (public) funds for the three-year budget cycle. In this publicly available document, the Attachment No.5...
Kazakhstan started mass vaccinations with homegrown QazVac vaccine
Kazakhstan has rolled out its homegrown coronavirus vaccine, with the central Asian country’s health minister receiving the jab on live television. QazCovid-in, also known as QazVac, is a two-shot vaccine that is in third-stage trials, The Guardian reports. Agence...
Health Budget Brief 2020 – Tanzania Mainland
UNICEF has shared its Health Budget Brief 2020 for Tanzania Mainland.
Health Budget Brief 2020 – Zanzibar
UNICEF has shared its Health Budget Brief 2020 for Zanzibar.
Kenya has adopted its Health Sector Partnership and Coordination Framework
Kenya has adopted its Health Sector Partnership and Coordination Framework, which is geared to improve communication and coordination between development partners and the Kenyan government on both national and county levels. It includes thematic Interagency...
Zambia gets 1st 228,000 vaccine doses from COVAX
Zambia gets 1st 228,000 vaccine doses from COVAX East African country so far has confirmed 90,064 COVID-19 infections, 1,227 deaths 12.04.2021 Read the published information here
Working in Partnership for SOCIAL HEALTH PROTECTION in Pakistan
We are happy to share with you the publication titled “Working in Partnership for Social Health Protection in Pakistan”. The 14-page report presents insights into German-supported capacity development measures aimed at strengthening Pakistan’s social health protection...
Extending work-related social protection to informal workers in Pakistan’s Punjab province
We are happy to share with you the publication titled “Extending work-related social protection to informal workers in Pakistan’s Punjab province”. The Support to Social Protection - Social Health Protection (SP-SHP) project undertook a scoping study to analyse how...
Covid-19 Poses Challenges in Healthcare Financing
In Singapore, the most apparent cost of this epidemic is the cost of providing direct medical care and public health services such as screening tests and ICU (intensive care unit) care for those affected. Since the indirect and intangible losses are not easy to...
Sri Lanka launches the COVID–19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund
The Government of Sri Lanka set up ‘COVID-19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund’ on 23rd March 2020, to strengthen the activities aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19 virus in the country and to support the related social welfare programmes in...
Japan’s Hospitals Face Financial Hardships Under COVID-19
Since November 2020, when the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic started in earnest, Japanese hospitals are finding it harder to get by financially. Compared to the previous year, the number of inpatients and outpatients had decreased and although...