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Kenya’s free maternity care program was first introduced in 2013. Since then, facility deliveries rose from 44 percent before the policy was in place to 66 percent in FY 2012/13. The maternal death rate also declined by 7.9 percent. After several months of intensive work, Kenya has launched Linda Mama—a revamped free maternity services program that expands the types of services available to mothers and babies and access. The program will be offered at all public health facilities and a combined 2,700 private sector and faith-based facilities. USAID, through the Health Policy Plus project, supported Kenya’s Ministry of Health and National Health Insurance Fund to redesign the program; cost the program’s benefits package; determine the resources required for implementation; ensure adequate government allocations; inform the program’s reimbursement rates; and prepare technical, implementation, and funding policy documents. The new program will reach an estimated 700,000 women each year.
Kenya’s free maternity care program was first introduced in 2013. Since then, facility deliveries rose from 44 percent before the policy was in place to 66 percent in FY 2012/13. The maternal death rate also declined by 7.9 percent. After several months of intensive work, Kenya has launched Linda Mama—a revamped free maternity services program that expands the types of services available to mothers and babies and access. The program will be offered at all public health facilities and a combined 2,700 private sector and faith-based facilities. USAID, through the Health Policy Plus project, supported Kenya’s Ministry of Health and National Health Insurance Fund to redesign the program; cost the program’s benefits package; determine the resources required for implementation; ensure adequate government allocations; inform the program’s reimbursement rates; and prepare technical, implementation, and funding policy documents. The new program will reach an estimated 700,000 women each year.
Kenya’s free maternity care program was first introduced in 2013. Since then, facility deliveries rose from 44 percent before the policy was in place to 66 percent in FY 2012/13. The maternal death rate also declined by 7.9 percent. After several months of intensive work, Kenya has launched Linda Mama—a revamped free maternity services program that expands the types of services available to mothers and babies and access. The program will be offered at all public health facilities and a combined 2,700 private sector and faith-based facilities. USAID, through the Health Policy Plus project, supported Kenya’s Ministry of Health and National Health Insurance Fund to redesign the program; cost the program’s benefits package; determine the resources required for implementation; ensure adequate government allocations; inform the program’s reimbursement rates; and prepare technical, implementation, and funding policy documents. The new program will reach an estimated 700,000 women each year.
Kenya’s free maternity care program was first introduced in 2013. Since then, facility deliveries rose from 44 percent before the policy was in place to 66 percent in FY 2012/13. The maternal death rate also declined by 7.9 percent. After several months of intensive work, Kenya has launched Linda Mama—a revamped free maternity services program that expands the types of services available to mothers and babies and access. The program will be offered at all public health facilities and a combined 2,700 private sector and faith-based facilities. USAID, through the Health Policy Plus project, supported Kenya’s Ministry of Health and National Health Insurance Fund to redesign the program; cost the program’s benefits package; determine the resources required for implementation; ensure adequate government allocations; inform the program’s reimbursement rates; and prepare technical, implementation, and funding policy documents. The new program will reach an estimated 700,000 women each year.
