Afou and Aramatu Koné Dyou, Mali

One of the main impacts of the mutual health organizations (MHOs) to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s on the financing of, delivery of, and access to health social and welfare sectors such as health and care with particular reference to countries of education was the reduction of state subsidies to West and Central Africa (WCA).1 This objective these areas in an effort to cut deficit lev. [...] The aim of the surveys was, to the extent possible, to gather comparative data on the basic The potential users of the study are first and features of all the MHOs in each country. [...] Originally, the partners had intended to Analysis of the inventory MHOs reveals study MHOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo interesting information about the state, features, (DRC), one of the countries with a long history of and some of the constraints of MHOs in the MHO development and a significant number of subregion. [...] significantly affect MHO development, either In the last three years, several factors have positively (if, for instance, the country has transformed the institutional environment for the adequate promoting institutions well attuned to development of MHOs in the subregion, namely: the needs of the MHOs or laws that facilitate the (a) the increased attention by governments to the development of MHOs. [...] internal authorities but is not rules and One of the crucial factors in the rise and the 11 registered regulations design of new MHOs, as illustrated in the Thiès Number 18 24 3 45 region of Senegal, the area with the densest of MHOs network of MHOs in the subregion, is the example provided by a successful experience.