Children below five years are exempted from the official user fees under the cost-sharing policy of Tanzania [ 28, 29].
When adherence was assessed across all eight tracer conditions combined, including laboratory fees, none of the facilities adhered fully to the official user fee policy.
In addition, in the three districts, women spent additional amounts on medicines and consumables while all "procedures, drugs and consumables, and observation" are supposed to be included in the official user fee [ 18].
Adherence to the official user fee policy in Kenya's public health centres and dispensaries was very low, with many patients paying for services that should have been free, others paying more than the specified amount, and few receiving waivers on the basis of poverty.
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Variables hypothesized to be positively associated with adherence included those related to location (municipal facilities, less remote facilities, facilities in less poor locations), recent supervision by the District Health Management Team, recent meeting of the health facility committee, and facilities displaying official user fees.
Latvia, with higher official user costs, was in the middle.
Many discussants were in favour of introducing official user charges, mostly because they thought these would decrease the patient load, although some also mentioned the money could be used to improve facilities.
