Community [Insurance] Scheme Program Nigeria

Targeting groups of uninsured, low-income people, including 40,000 market women in Lagos and 75,000 farmers in Kwara state, this project aims to (1) Increase access to quality basic health care through risk-pooling and health insurance for currently uninsured groups in Africa; (2) evaluate different health care models to implement insurance based health care programs; (3) build sustainable medical and financial-administrative capacity in the health sector; (4) realize investments in health infrastructure; and (5) support Millennium Development Goals 1 and 6: reducing poverty and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other major diseases. This intervention will generate an increasing demand for prepaid health schemes and stimulate investments in local private health capacity. The concept contributes furthermore to the enforcement of quality standards, since healthcare providers are paid based on their performance. PharmAccess is responsible for the initiation, development and implementation of the insurance based healthcare programs.

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