August 6, 2024
openIMIS powers Cameroon’s long-term vision for universal health coverage
Cameroon has adopted the digital public good openIMIS to bring together different health financing schemes in one digital UHC platform. This is improving scheme efficiency, transparency and governance, and extending access to health services for those in need.
June 24, 2024
A first for Senegal, as social health insurance is extended to artisans
Informal sector workers often earn low and irregular wages, lack protection and face difficulties in accessing adequate basic services. As part of Senegal’s labour reforms, Germany is supporting a social protection pilot which could be extended to cover the whole informal sector
February 8, 2024
Research into the implementation of India’s PM-JAY generates wealth of learning
Researchers and development practitioners reflect on learnings from comprehensive research, commissioned by the Indo-German Social Security Programme, examining the implementation and impact of the world’s largest health insurance scheme.
November 28, 2023
WHS 2023: How can access to health innovations be made more equitable?
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare brutal inequities in access to medical breakthroughs between Global North and South. A high-level panel debates how this can be changed.
October 30, 2023
WHS 2023: Reimagining Universal Health Coverage to Leave No One Behind
What will it take to bridge the health gap for people with disabilities and provide access to assistive technology for all those who need it?
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Under Universal Health Coverage all people have access to adequate healthcare without suffering financial hardship paying for it.
Access to healthcare is a human right. Yet, more than half of the world’s population currently does not have full coverage of essential health services. Over 90 million people a year are pushed into extreme poverty (having to live on less than US$1.90 a day) because they have to pay for health care or are unable to work due to illness. In 2005, all member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) subscribed to the goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – ensuring that all people have access to healthcare without suffering financial hardship paying for it.
’Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people and communities can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship’ (WHO, 2019).
Ensuring financial protection for all is a complex and lengthy undertaking that raises numerous systemic – and redistributive – questions about how a state intends to guarantee and promote a basic human right of its citizens. Supporting partner countries in this endeavour is one of the priorities of German development cooperation in health and social protection, as reflected in the articles, events and studies presented on this page.
Stories
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openIMIS powers Cameroon’s long-term vision for universal health coverage
Cameroon has adopted the digital public good openIMIS to bring together different health financing schemes in one digital UHC platform. This is improving scheme efficiency, transparency and governance, and extending access to health services for those in need.
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A first for Senegal, as social health insurance is extended to artisans
Informal sector workers often earn low and irregular wages, lack protection and face difficulties in accessing adequate basic services. As part of Senegal’s labour reforms, Germany is supporting a social protection pilot which could be extended to cover the whole informal sector
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Research into the implementation of India’s PM-JAY generates wealth of learning
Researchers and development practitioners reflect on learnings from comprehensive research, commissioned by the Indo-German Social Security Programme, examining the implementation and impact of the world’s largest health insurance scheme.
Events
Studies
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Catalyst dialogue on health financing
Financing Health for All in the context of scarcity
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Trusted partners for Universal Health Coverage
Learning from support to large-scale reforms in India and Indonesia
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How rewards improve health practice in Malawi
Learnings from a Maternal and Newborn Health Initiative
