Issue Brief: Increasing the Role of the Private Health Sector
Language:
English
Publisher:
United States Agency for International Development
Copyright:
2006
Pages:
2
Description:
In sub-Saharan Africa, the private health sector ranges from traditional healers, pharmacies, and shopkeepers selling health care products, to nonprofit and for-profit clinics and hospitals. There are a variety of reasons people use the private health sector including convenience, perceived quality, confidentiality, or because nothing else is available. Moreover, private health care in sub-Saharan Africa is not just for the rich. Africans of all socioeconomic backgrounds turn to the private sector for their health care needs. [from author]
Subject
Geographic Focus
Resource Type
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