Paying for HIV/AIDS services : lessons from National Health Accounts and community-based health insurance in Rwanda, 1998-1999

This report focuses on the financial side of HIV/AIDS. The first chapter examines how much and what proportion of overall health expenditures by government donors and patients go towards the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Suggestions are given on a way to decrease the financial burden of HIV on the rural poor infected with the virus through community-based health insurance such as prepayment schemes. The information reported is from two initiatives undertaken by the Ministry of Health in Rwanda the Rwandan National Health Accounts analysis and a pilot program of prepayment schemes in the three Rwandan districts of Byumba Kabgayi and Kabutare.