For the rest, it supplied a basic package of services to local distributors and housing associations, which controlled the cables that reach homes.
The Department of Health and Human Services in January proposed its definition of the basic package of services that insurers and employers who offer insurance must cover; houses of worship were exempted.
In addition, the Ministry of Health is obliged to include only new interventions into the basic package of services if they are cost-effective in comparison to other possible interventions.
"One of these interventions is, of course, bed nets, and one way to scale up the distribution is to put it into a basic package of services.
HIV-negative women were scheduled to visit the ANC clinic every six weeks for a basic package of services including retesting for HIV at 32 weeks gestation.
Over the last decade, several reforms have been implemented to increase the health system's efficiency, including: reorientation of primary health care, improvement of emergency care and introduction of a basic package of services.
In the initial phase, covering 20072009, the key focus is on identifying and removing bottlenecks, while delivering a basic package of services using community-based and family-care strategies.
The per capita total expenditure on health is one of the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa and is critically short of the US$344 recommended by the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health to provide a basic package of services [ 17].
In 2006, it also removed user fees for pregnant women and children under five who were using a basic package of services in health centers, primary, and secondary referral hospitals.
THE per capita in Namibia compares very favorably to those in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, which are far from the US$344 recommended by the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health to provide a basic package of services [ 14].
The Bank also proposes to limit government financing to a basic package of services, to be determined for each country by cost-effectiveness studies and the country's ability to pay.
