Sharing experiences on health insurance management between South Kivu and Tanzania on 12-14 December 2017 in Morogoro, Tanzania.
Many lowand middle-income countries are working to build up health insurance schemes - both public and community based - to protect their populations in case of sudden illness. To professionalise these schemes in a sustainable manner, Swiss TPH has created an Insurance Management Information System (IMIS). IMIS was first developed in English with national partners in Tanzania, in the context of the Health Promotion and System Strengthening (HPSS) project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). IMIS now exists in other languages and is being rolled out in different countries, including in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To share experiences and learn from their Tanzanian counterparts, nine Congolese delegates are visiting Morogoro, Tanzania, through support from the SDC-funded Programme d'Appui au Systeme de Santé (PASS) in South Kivu. While IMIS in Tanzania today manages 1.47 million individuals, the database in South Kivu stands at around 15,000 insured people. "Currently our first priority is to operationalize basic features of IMIS.
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