Social Health Protection (SHP)

The Social Health Protection project will reduce financial barriers to health services for the poor by increasing the nationwide coverage of the public-sector health insurance program known as the Health Equity Fund.

This fund enables the poor to access and pay for quality health services, thereby mitigating the effects of disease and sickness while reducing the financial burden of health-care costs on the poor.

Activities will strengthen the ability of the national and district-level governments to administer health insurance, link reimbursements to improved health services, include civil society and communities in oversight of the enrollment process to ensure more transparency, and revise the package of health services provided to the poor to include priority services.

The U.S. government will help expand the Heath Equity Fund across all of Cambodia and provide three million poor Cambodians with access to healthcare without forcing them into further financial hardship.