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Costs and Benefits of Health Microinsurance Premium Loans and Linkages with Health Providers: CARD's Experience in the Philippines

Focusing on the impact of the MAHP (Microfinance and Health Protection) services on CARD (Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mutually Reinforcing Institutions), this paper explores the hypothesis that microfinance institutions (MFIs) can feasibly offer health-related services that “pay for themselves” via a combination of financial revenues and nonfinancial benefits that indirectly improve the MFI’s financial position.