Health
Pennsylvania announces hazard pay for essential workers
State Treasurer: $300M in grants available to help first responders,local governments due to COVID-19
Plano de saúde deve cobrir o teste para Covid-19 desde março
Macron announces bonus package for homecare workers amid COVID-19 crisis
Nigeria Strengthened Surveillance To Curb COVID-19 Spread ― WHO
Families of all frontline healthcare workers who died from Covid-19 will be eligible for compensation package,Health Minister announces
Korea: Subsidy to individuals who need to be isolated or hospitalized
oecd.org (16.04.2020) Provision of a subsidy to individuals who need to be isolated (both self-isolation and hospitalisation) to support their living costs and penalises those who are suspected to be infected if they refuse to receive diagnostic test or subsequent treatment or go through self-isolation.
UNAIDS calls for urgent action to strengthen social protection programmes in the face of COVID-19
UNAIDS (26.08.2020) UNAIDS is calling on governments to strengthen HIV-sensitive social protection responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
People living with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are being significantly impacted by COVID-19. Modelling has estimated the potential catastrophic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic with increases of up to 10%, 20% and 36% projected deaths for HIV, TB and malaria patients, respectively, over the next five years.
COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor
The Health System Response Monitor (HSRM) has been designed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak to collect and organize up-to-date information on how countries are responding to the crisis. It focuses primarily on the responses of health systems but also captures wider public health initiatives. This is a joint undertaking of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the European Commission, and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.