Kadidiatou K. auteur aut IRD Yamba K. auteur aut IRD Aboubacar O. auteur aut IRD Ridde Valéry auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access To enable mutual health funds to extend coverage to poor people, the Mutual Health Support Network (Réseau d'appui aux mutuelles de santé - RAMS) in 2012 launched an initiative in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Action and Solidarity (ministère de l'Action sociale et de la Solidarité nationale - MASSN) in Burkina Faso. This article reveals difficulties in the initiative's implementation, which resulted in the continued exclusion of poor people from health services. Poor people were required not only to make co-payments, but also to accept a limitation of coverage to three episodes of illness per year. Additional challenges to service takeup were the geographical distance of the homes of some beneficiaries covered by a mutual fund agreement from a health centre and the failure by some health workers and managers of pharmacies to recognize the mutual membership card. A formal framework was lacking that brought together all the actors involved in planning and implementing the initiative. Those involved did not all have the same information. Each structure performed the tasks within its scope, according to its own interests, but without consulting the other parties, and there was no platform for discussing implementation difficulties. specialized BURKINA FASO 056 71 1 71-91 2018 0020-871X https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072294 10.1111/issr.12161 0020-871X [F B010072294] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072294 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/depot/2018-05-15/010072294.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2018-05-15 2023-07-11 fdi:010072294 fre