Globally, it is estimated that 400 million people lack access to essential health services and
150 million suffer financial catastrophe because of out-of-pocket (OPP) expenditure on …

Quantification of UHC trends in South Africa suggests that significant progress was made
overall between 1998 and 2019 in terms of increasing population coverage for most …

This document provides a preliminary assessment of aspects of the Ugandan health system
relative to the goal of universal health coverage, with a particular focus on the financing …

The importance of establishing universal health coverage policies for facilitating health care
access and utilisation in developing countries is recognised in the literature. However …

A middle-income country, South Africa has a history of a divided and discriminatory health
care system, which originated during the colonial era. The population of South Africa is …

Background The first phase of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot programme focusing
on primary healthcare has been implemented in Tshwane and 10 other districts of South …

Introduction: This study is aimed to analyze the progress towards the attainment of Universal
Health Coverage (UHC) in Ghana after the establishment of the 'National Health Insurance …

Background Universal health coverage is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets
known to improve population health and reduce financial burden. There is little qualitative …

When South Africa first endeavored to develop its National Health Insurance (NHI) system,
the Department of Health and the National Treasury struggled to find common ground on an …

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) means that “all individuals and communities receive the
health services they need without suffering financial hardship”(1). UHC also includes the full …