User fee removal in low-income countries: sharing knowledge to support managed implementation

User fee removal in low-income countries: sharing knowledge to support managed implementation.

User fees have triggered impassioned discussions in international health over the last two decades. Promoted by a number of international organizations since the late 1980s as a strategy to finance struggling public health facilities in many lowincome countries, recent years have seen growing criticism of the impact of fees on access to health services, particularly for the poorest groups. The ...

Providing Pathology Support in Low-Income Countries

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Corresponding author: Kenneth A. Fleming, MD, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, 43 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HG, United Kingdom; e-mail: kenneth.fleming@ medsci.ox.ac.uk. The burden of cancer is on the rise. More than 7 million people per year die as a result of cancer, and it is responsible for more deaths worldwide than AIDS, malaria, ...

Global support for new vaccine implementation in middle-income countries.

Middle-income countries (MICs) as a group are not only characterized by a wide range of gross national income (GNI) per capita (US $1026 to $12,475), but also by diversity in size, geography, governance, and infrastructure. They include the largest and smallest countries of the world-including 16 landlocked developing countries, 27 small island developing states, and 17 least developed countrie...

User fees or equity funds in low-income countries.

Communities of practice: the missing link for knowledge management on implementation issues in low-income countries?

The implementation of policies remains a huge challenge in many low-income countries. Several factors play a role in this, but improper management of existing knowledge is no doubt a major issue. In this article, we argue that new platforms should be created that gather all stakeholders who hold pieces of relevant knowledge for successful policies. To build our case, we capitalize on our experi...