Gender Equality in Access to Healthcare
A lack of medicine, water and electricity; shortages of doctors; prohibitive costs: they all stand in the way of providing good quality healthcare to all. The World Health Organization estimates that in 22 countries, the entire healthcare systems need to be rebuilt.
Christophe Paquet,...
The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Poverty and Income Distribution in South Africa 2014/2015
Better-equipped hospitals, improved access to healthcare facilities, better trained staff, the upcoming introduction of universal health insurance: since 2007, AFD has been supporting the Comorian authorities through the PASCO project, an ambitious program aimed at supporting the health sector...
In recent years, AFD has significantly increased its support for healthcare in the French administrative department of Réunion. AFD comes to the aid of local healthcare stakeholders, hospitals, and non-profit organizations managing medico-social institutions that care for the dependent elderly...
AFD has joined forces with Fondation Pierre Fabre to establish a comprehensive care center for female victims of violence in Bangui, Central African Republic. The partnership was forged at a Paris conference on November 28, 2019. Among those present was Doctor Denis Mukwege, gynecologist and...
She has set herself the task of recounting Africa differently. Marguerite Abouet – who came to AFD on this 20 September for a discussion and autograph session – was exiled in France when she was still a child. She started writing very early on, then putting her stories into drawings before...
Baganda Sakho is a former emigrant who returned to Senegal in the mid-1980s. In a book, he talks about his path of a thousand lives. During his visit to AFD’s headquarters in Paris on 16 October, the man who is now an elected official talked about his years in France, his difficult return to his...
Going Beyond Adverse Selection: Take-up of a Health Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
Insuring Health or Insuring Wealth? An experimental evaluation of health insurance in rural Cambodia
Linkages between Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
An Application of the Alkire-Foster’s Multidimensional Poverty Index to Data from Madagascar: Taking Into Account the Dimensions of Employment and Gender Inequality
AFD and Social Protection
All Hands on Deck : Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa
The massive explosions at Beirut’s port on August 4, which killed more than 200 people and injured thousands, are the latest in a series of tragic events to strike a country mired in crisis. AFD has responded to the catastrophe with additional assistance as part of France’s effort to coordinate...