Abstract Background Nigeria and Ghana have recently introduced a National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with the aim of moving towards universal health care using more …

Background Nigeria has included a regulated community-based health insurance (CBHI)
model within its National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Uptake to date has been …

Health insurance coverage of the informal sector is a challenge in Nigeria. This study
assessed the methods of payment for health care and awareness about the National Health …

Poverty and eye health, including vision disability from vision impairment and blindness, are
believed to be interrelated. The relationship between poverty and eye health can be …

Background In sub-Saharan Africa, there is a growing awareness of the burden of paediatric
surgical diseases. This has highlighted the large discrepancy between the capacity to treat …

Interventions aiming to simultaneously improve financial protection and quality of care may
provide an important avenue towards universal health coverage. We estimate the effects of …

Background Pre-payment and risk pooling schemes, central to the idea of universal health
coverage, should protect households from catastrophic health expenditure and …

Background More than 150 million people encounter huge cost of health expenses every
year, and most of these treatment seekers face poverty owing to out-of-pocket payments …

Objective This study aimed to provide an overview of current knowledge and situational
analysis of financing of surgery and anaesthesia across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Setting …

Background There are significant obstacles to the delivery of surgical care in low income
countries. Few studies have defined or characterized these constraints. The present study …