In 2016 the Government of Burkina Faso introduced Gratuité, a user fee replacement policy, to increase access to and use of health care services for women and for children under 5 years of age.
ThinkWell and its learning partner Recherche pour la Santé et le Développement (RESADE) conducted a detailed review of the Gratuité policy in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH). This review is part of ThinkWell’s Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care (SP4PHC) project to improve primary health care, implemented in five countries with support from a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The team reviewed the Gratuité policy to better understand and describe how it works in the field, what its challenges are, and which lessons can be drawn for the way forward. The assessment was conducted using a literature review, data analysis, and key informant interviews (KIIs)
You can download the report in English version here.