Fresh calls for health insurance scheme after funding cuts

ZIMBABWE needs a well-refined national health insurance scheme to meet the needs of ordinary citizens following a freeze and cuts on foreign aid by the United States (US), Netherlands and European countries.

The country was receiving at least US$40 million annually under the United States President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) and USAid for HIV programming including for the supply of life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines.

In January, US President Donald Trump introduced a raft of measures to cut aid under USAid and other programmes.

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