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Health Financing: A Tool to Improve Access to Reproductive Healthcare

The Commercial Market Strategies project (CMS) looked for ways to improve access to reproductive health services in the private sector. In developing countries, patients normally pay private providers, out of their own pocket, at the time of service. Any technique that makes private sector services available without requiring immediate payment for each separate service is a form of health financing; and what we would consider a "tool" for expanding access to healthcare. CMS identifies, develops and implements innovative financing schemes which expand the availability of private sector services, or reduce the financial burden at the time of service.