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The Netherlands has a mandatory social health insurance system. Reducing the need for care and helping the ill and disabled to be more self-sufficient is an important goal for the government. Promoting a healthy life style helps to prevent excessive use of the health system. Exceptional medical costs are usually payed for by the government.
News
Netherlands unfreezes Libyan assets for medical supplies
The Netherlands is freeing up €100 million of the Libyan regime’s assets that are frozen in the Netherlands at the urgent request ...
The Netherlands supports Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Between now and 2013, the Netherlands will invest €163.5 million in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. On ...
Netherlands lobbies successfully for sexual rights
The Netherlands played a successful and leading role at an international conference on sexual rights and free access to ...
Political declaration of UN AIDS summit ambitious but could have been more forceful
On Friday, in the final declaration of the UN High-level Meeting on AIDS, UN Member States adopted new targets to rid the world of ...
Knapen to invest in preventive health care and human rights in Africa
Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation Ben Knapen told parliament on Wednesday that Dutch development ...
Documents and publications
Q&A Short-term care leave
Short-term care leave is available to employees who have to look after a sick child, partner or parents.
Call to Action for Access for All
Call to Action for Access for All: Supplying a New Decade for Reproductive Health. This document discusses key priority outcomes ...
Programme letter concerning long-term care
Letter by State Secretary Veldhuijzen van Zanten-Hyllner (Health, Welfare and Sport) to the parliament about long-term care.
The Dutch Cabinet: coffeeshop to be a private club for the local market
Coffeeshops will become private clubs for the local market. Upon recommendation by Minister Schippers of Health, Welfare and Sport ...
Speech by Minister Knapen at the Heineken HIV/AIDS Symposium
It is a misconception that fighting HIV/AIDS in developing countries is not a priority for the current Dutch government. At the ...
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