African leaders accepted in the year 2001 through the Abuja Declaration to allocate 15% of
their government expenditure on health but by 2013 only five (5) African countries achieved …

In recent years, governments of several low-income countries have taken decisive action by
removing fully or partially user fees in the health sector. In this study, we review recent …

In the outcome document of the Rio+ 20 Conference, in 2012, entitled “The future we want”,
and again in “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in …

Background Monitoring the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure, as
well as the impoverishing effects of out of pocket costs to access healthcare, is a key part of …

Background: Previous studies investigating factors associated with healthcare utilization by
older Ghanaians lack distinction between public and private health services. The present …

Background Uganda halved its maternal mortality to 343/100,000 live births between 1990
and 2015, but did not meet the Millennium Development Goal 5. Skilled, timely and good …

Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, it is important to critically review
research on healthcare financing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the perspective of the …

Abstract With Universal Health Coverage (UHC) now entrenched among the top global
development priorities, questions arise as to the conditions under which politicians commit …

Background Out-of-pocket payments in health care have been shown to impose significant
burden on households in Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to constrained access to health care …

Background To plan for a community case management (CCM) program after the
implementation of the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI), we assessed health care seeking …