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Nicolas and Caryn

Nicolas de Borman and Caryn Bredenkamp are Health Economists, for AEDES and the World Bank respectively.

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RBF in the DRC: The Final Countdown

By Nicolas and Caryn on Tue, 2010-05-18 16:47

10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 7 -7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 - 1 ----Yesterday, Soeur Hélène, head of the Saint-Jean health center in Kasenga, DRC, learnt that her center would soon move to a performance-based financing system. In a lucky draw, presided over by the provincial Minister of Health, Centre de Santé Saint-Jean and 141 other health facilities in Haut-Katanga district were randomly allocated into treatment and control groups - one of the final steps in the countdown to the launch of the DRC RBF pilot. MwabaMwaba

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