{"id":987654434,"date":"2021-06-03T03:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/burkina-faso-a-health-mutual-enrolls-a-hundred-sickle-cell-affected-children\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T03:19:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:19:53","slug":"burkina-faso-a-health-mutual-enrolls-a-hundred-sickle-cell-affected-children","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/burkina-faso-a-health-mutual-enrolls-a-hundred-sickle-cell-affected-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso: a health mutual enrolls a hundred sickle-cell-affected children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a national program to combat sickle cell anemia, the &#8221;&nbsp;Project to support the fight against sickle cell disease in Burkina Faso&nbsp;&#8220;The project was carried out by the consortium of the Ministry of Health, CID\/Burkina and GIH, with financial support from the Pierre Fabre Foundation and AFD (Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the first phase, a cohort of 100 distressed children from vulnerable families was identified for care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hundred or so children selected will benefit from payment of their contribution for one year to the Lafi Baor\u00e9 health mutual.&nbsp;This will entitle them to a 70% reduction in charges at health centers and pharmacies partnered with the mutual health insurance scheme. &#8221;&nbsp;The annual contribution is 12,000 CFA francs, or 1,000 CFA francs a month, and this covers 70% of all consultations, examinations and pharmaceutical products, mainly essential generic medicines.&nbsp;&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Payment of these contributions is made possible by the Pierre Fabre Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/lefaso.net\/spip.php?article105071\">this article<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a national program to combat sickle cell anemia, the &#8221;&nbsp;Project to support the fight against sickle cell disease in Burkina Faso&nbsp;&#8220;The project was carried out by the consortium of the Ministry of Health, CID\/Burkina and GIH, with financial support from the Pierre Fabre Foundation and AFD (Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement).&nbsp; In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987530207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987654434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987654434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987654434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987654434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}