Last Change:
01/22/2025
Social Health Insurance Act
Year: 2023
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Social protection
Description
Establishes the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) to provide universal health coverage for all residents of Kenya.
Selected provisions
(a) provide a framework for improved health
outcomes and financial protection in line with the
right to health and universal health coverage;
(b) realign healthcare systems, ,processes and
programs for responsiveness, reliability and
sustainability of health care in Kenya;
(c) enhance the pooling of resources and risks based
on the principles of solidarity, equity and
efficiency so as to guarantee access to health care
services to all
Every person resident in Kenya shall register as a member of the Social Health Insurance Fund.
Every member shall contribute to the Fund in the prescribed manner.