Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They
play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately …

Background: The health seeking behaviour of a community determines how they use health
services. Utilisation of health facilities can be influenced by the cost of services, distance to …

Each year in Uganda 141 000 children die before reaching their fifth birthday; 26% of these
children die in their first month of life. In a setting of persistently high fertility rates, a crisis in …

This article presents estimates based on the research conducted in 2010 of the cost to the
Ugandan health system of providing post-abortion care (PAC), filling a gap in knowledge of …

In developing countries, public sector health facilities frequently run out of essential
medicines (“stockouts”). I test whether anti-malarial drug stockouts affect prices, quality, and …

Background Some previous studies have assessed catastrophic health expenditure (CHE)
in households with hypertensive patients, but few have examined the difference of CHE in …

Whether user fees for health services should be charged or abolished for the poor has
recently been debated. This study examines the impact on child health status of removing …

Executive summary Policy makers in the health sector face a continuous search for optimal
methods of financing and funding national health services. In public finance and health care …

Background: Despite the long existence of community health insurance schemes (CHI) in
Uganda, their numbers and coverage levels have remained small with limited accessibility …

Background There has been a rapid scale up of HIV services and access to anti-retroviral
therapy in Africa over the last 10 years as a result of multilateral donor funding mechanisms …