BMC Health Services Research special issue: User Fee Exemption Policies

BMC Health Services Research on november 6, 2015 a supplement about User fee exemption policies. This supplement was edited Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Valéry Ridde as invited coordinators. Articles in this supplement have been modified from chapters in the book Une politique publique de santé et ses contradictions. La gratuité des soins au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger, J.-P. Olivier de Sardan and V. Ridde (eds), 2014, Karthala, Paris, with the permission of the publisher. (more…)

Impact of donor-driven health financing policies on perceived quality of services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

This presentation realised by Lara Gautier & Valéry Ridde for the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations – Wednesday 23 – Saturday 26 September 2015, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy, treats about a scoping review of the impact of donor-driven health financing policies on perceived quality of services in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Access to health care for the ‘worst-off’ in Burkina Faso: 15 years of research

This presentation is an attempt to summarize some of the major evidences that Valéry Ridde and his colleagues have accumulated the past 15 years of research on access to health care for the ‘worst-off’ in Burkina Faso. It was presented at the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health.

Mining revenue and access to health care in Africa: could the revenue drawn from well-managed mining sectors finance exemption from payment for health?

This article published on August 12th 2015 in Development in Practice and written by Valéry Ridde, Bonnie Campbell and Andréanne Martel is about mining revenue and access to health care in Africa and adresses the question if the revenue drawn from well-managed mining sectors finance exemption from payment for health.   (more…)