Budgeting challenges on the path towards universal health coverage: the case of Benin – September 2020
Background In its pursuance of universal health coverage (UHC), the government of Benin is piloting a project of mandatory social insurance for health entitled “ARCH”. Methods We analysed budget data and ARCH documents, and conducted four observation missions in Benin...
Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance: a wrong track for LMICs? A forthcoming webinar.
In low- and low-middle-income countries, there is an increasing interest in initiating and expanding social health insurance through labor taxes. Yet, this vision goes against available empirical evidence. This session will build on recent recommendatons by...
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More than 200 high-level individuals have been involved in L4UHC, from health and financial specialists through to politicians and representatives of civil society. Find out what they think about the programme, and how it has helped countries progress UHC, in the...
Ministry of Health and Social Services, the Embassy of Japan and the World Health Organization (WHO) renew effort to address the Hepatitis E Virus Outbreak in Namibia
The Namibian government renewed its efforts in containing the Hepatitis E Virus (HEV), which was declared as an outbreak since 14 December 2017. To this end, the “Improving the national preparedness and response capacity to contain infectious disease outbreaks...
Nepal boosts drugs availability – August 2020
Nepal has made significant progress in improving drug availability in districts. Pukar Malla, an executive coach at the Nepal Leadership Academy, explains how L4UHC helped create a safe space to innovate, and the importance of starting small and thinking big. Nepal...
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https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/8/e003509 Summary box ► COVID-19 has exposed structural deficiencies in health, social and economic policies and sectors in the Americas impacting the resilience of health systems and societies. ►Due to the pandemic, the region of the...
Field Trips for Basic Essential Package of Health Services Costing Exercise
The costing of the Basic Essential Package of Health Services is a currently on-going exercise. It was led by the National Health Plan Implementation Unit (widely known as NIMU) of the Ministry of Health and Sports and supported by the WHO. At the invitation of...
“Ayushman Bharat for a new India” – protecting the poor
Two major initiatives for the health sector where announced as part of Ayushman Bharat: 1. Health and Wellness Centre Scheme 2. National Health Protection Scheme covering Hospital Care for poor and vulnerable families (Announcement Posted On: 01 FEB 2018 1:31PM by PIB...
RSBY – Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, health insurance for the poor
In the past, the Government had tried to provide a health insurance cover to selected beneficiaries either at the State level or National level. However, most of these schemes were not able to achieve their intended objectives. Often there were issues with either the...
India: Integration of Government health schemes under the National Health Authority
on August 13th the governing board of National Health Authority (NHA), chaired by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, approved the proposal to integrate existing health schemes of the central ministries with the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri...
Employee State Insurance Scheme – Social Health Insurance for Workers
The Employee State Insurance Scheme of India is legislated by the Employees' State Insurance Act of 1948, the first major legislation on social security for workers in independent India. The intention then was to contribute to socio-economic improvements for...
Mahidol University and the ILO launch specialised Master’s Program developed to advance Social Health Protection in Asia
With support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the ASEAN Health Institute for Health Development at Mahidol University, Thailand, has developed and launched an innovative 1-year Master’s Degree in Primary Health Care Management (MPHM) and Social Health...
Paper about COVID-19 prevention strategies in resource limited settings…
https://conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13031-020-00296- Abstract COVID-19 prevention strategies in resource limited settings, modelled on the earlier response in high income countries, have thus far focused on draconian containment strategies,...
Use of costing results and social accountability in Cambodia
Many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), such as Cambodia, have undertaken significant reforms in the last decade to strengthen their health care systems to improve equity and accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In this context, health...
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Aid Transparency During COVID-19: Henry Asor Nkang and Gary Forster on the CGD Podcast (27:28) : https://www.cgdev.org/blog/aid-transparency-during-covid-19-henry-asor-nkang-and-gary-forster-cgd-podcast# Et la possibilité, en sus, de travailler son anglais pour...