The Philippines is seeking a $400-million loan from the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the country’s universal health-care program, which aims to not only improve the quality of but also to ensure equitable access to health services.
ADB documents showed that its upcoming financing for its host-country’s build universal health-care program (subprogram 1) was in line with the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act of 2019.
The loan to be implemented by the Department of Health (DOH) “will support the implementation of wide-ranging policy, legal, regulatory, institutional, financing, service delivery and performance monitoring reforms envisaged in the UHC Act to achieve and s…
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