Making drugs available and accessible to the poor remains an important health care objective in developing countries. The Bamako Initiative has introduced the concept of a revolving fund, where users pay for medicines, thereby contributing to the replenishment of the fund. However, the inability...

Introduction: Prophylactic vaccinations play a significant role in health care. As a relatively cost-effective preventive measure they can help to avert transmissible diseases and thus protect not only the vaccinated individuals themselves but also those who have not been vaccinated. In order to...