This paper gives an account, based on published and unpublished papers, of the development of user fees for healthcare in low-income countries. It discusses how and why user fees were developed; their impact on health services and households; how donor po

This report summarises the findings of extensive research into the effects of user fees for healthcare on poor households in Tanzania. Tanzania, like many low-income countries, faces difficult decisions about how to pay for healthcare. In the 1990s the he

Most Ugandans living below the poverty threshold are children. Despite this, their perspective has not, until now, been incorporated in the many poverty analyses which have been carried out.The aim of this report is to contribute to the Uganda Poverty Par

'Taking Better Care?' revisits a care project for vulnerable children in Uganda seven years after Save the Children handed it over to local agencies and the community. It looks at whether the benefits that were documented at the end of the project have la