Sustainable financing for vaccination towards advancing universal health coverage in the WHO African region: The strategic role of national health insurance

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Table 1. Health insurance in African countries.

Country	Nature of health insurance scheme	Commencement of implementation of national health insurance scheme	Managing authority	Status of national health insurance scheme	Completed legislative process for establishing a national health insurance scheme
Algeria^Citation7	Formal Sector Health Insurance		Public Social Security Fund
Benin^Citation8	National Health Insurance	2008	Agence Nationale de l’Assurance Maladie	suspended
Burkina Faso					Yes
Burundi^Citation7	Community-based Health Insurance Formal Sector Health Insurance
Cameroon					Yes
Cote Ivoire	National Health Insurance	2014	National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)	Active
Ethiopia^Citation7	Community-based Health Insurance				Yes
Gabon	National Health Insurance	2007	National Health Insurance and Social Security Fund	Active
Gambia					Yes
Ghana	National Health Insurance	2003	National Health Insurance Scheme	Active
Kenya^Citation9	National Health Insurance	1966	National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)	Active
Mali^Citation7	Community-based Health Insurance				Yes
Nigeria^Citation10	National Health Insurance	2005	National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA)	Active
Rwanda^Citation11	National Health Insurance	2004	Rwanda Social Security Board	Active
Senegal^Citation7	Community-based Health Insurance
South Africa					Yes
Togo					Yes
Uganda^Citation12	Community-based health insurance				Yes
United Republic of Tanzania	National Health Insurance	2018	National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)	Active
Zambia^Citation13	National Health Insurance	2019	National Health Insurance Management Authority	Active

Figure 1. A conceptual model of the linkage between vaccination and universal health coverage.

Figure 2. Proposed NHI-NIP collaboration framework for financing vaccination.

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