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AFRICANS NEW PLAN HEALTH

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Health insurance is an insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses, spreading the risk over numerous persons. By estimating the overall risk of health risk and health system expenses over the risk pool, an insurer can develop a routine finance structure, such as a monthly premium or payroll tax, to provide the money to pay for the health care benefits specified in the insurance agreement.^[1] The benefit is administered by a central organization such as a government agency, private business, or not-for-profit entity.According to the Health Insurance Association of America, health insurance is defined as "coverage that provides for the payments of benefits as a result of sickness or injury. It includes insurance for losses from accident, medical expense, disability, or accidental death and dismemberment" (p. 225).^[2]

Health care is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Physicians and physician associates are a part of these health professionals. Dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic training and other health professions are all part of health care. It includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.

Access to health care may vary across countries, communities, and individuals, influenced by social and economic conditions as well as health policies. Providing health care services means "the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best possible health outcomes".^[2] Factors to consider in terms of healthcare access include financial limitations (such as insurance coverage), geographic barriers (such as additional transportation costs, the possibility to take paid time off of work to use such services), and personal limitations (lack of ability to communicate with healthcare providers, poor health literacy, low income).^[3] Limitations to health care services affects negatively the use of medical services, the efficacy of treatments, and overall outcome (well-being, mortality rates).Health care systems are organizations established to meet the health needs of targeted populations. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a well-functioning health care system requires a financing mechanism, a well-trained and adequately paid workforce, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies, and well maintained health facilities to deliver quality medicines and technologies.^[4An efficient health care system can contribute to a significant part of a country's economy, development, and industrialization. Health care is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health and well-being of people around the world. An example of this was the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980, declared by the WHO as the first disease in human history to be completely eliminated by deliberate health care interventions.^[5]Mental health is the level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness. It is the state of someone who is "functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment".^[1] From the perspectives of positive psychology or of holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.^[2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, inter-generational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others".^[3] The WHO further states that the well-being of an individual is encompassed in the realization of their abilities, coping with normal stresses of life, productive work, and contribution to their community.^[4] Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines "mental health".^[3]^[5]

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Improving Health for All Africans

The President promised that he would make quality, affordable health care not a privilege, but a right.

After nearly 100 years of talk, and decades of trying by presidents of both parties, that's exactly what he did.Today, many more African adults gained access to health coverage.

We've driven the uninsured rate below 10 percent the lowest level since we started keeping records and built stronger, healthier communities through advancements in public health, science, and innovation.

DFC - DPA LOAN PROGRAM EXECUTIVE ORDER 13922

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”) is launching its Request for Proposal (“RFP”) from private sector entities seeking support for DFC-DPA-eligible projects via financing. The RFP will be open to private sector entities with proposed projects that create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities supporting the national response and recovery to the COVID-19 outbreak; or the resiliency of any relevant domestic supply chain

The DFC-DPA Loan Program seeks to further expand domestic production of strategic resources needed to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, including strengthening relevant supply chains within the United States and its territories to ensure that our country has the capacity, capability, and strong and resilient domestic industrial base necessary to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.

1The DFC-DPA Loan Program seeks to finance commercially viable private sector projects in the United States that support the domestic response to and recovery from COVID-19 with investments in health supply chains (including the production and distribution of PPE, ventilators, therapeutics, diagnostics, vaccines, and other medical supplies); innovative care delivery systems; digital health and related IT systems; data science innovations; medical technology and devices; pharmaceuticals2; life sciences; and other investments in materials or technologies in relevant supply chains (including electronics, manufacturing, machine tools, industrial controls, raw materials, and advanced technology)

The DFC-DPA Loan Program seeks to partner with the private sector to support solutions to the most critical challenges facing the United States in the face of COVID-19. DFC-DPA investments will adhere to high standards with respect to credit and legaldue diligence. For additional information about the DFC-DPA Loan Program, please see www.dfc.gov/dpa

Key Dates Call Issued Proposals Due June 22, 2020 February 28, 2022

Sector Focus Pharmaceuticals Personal Protective Equipment Medical Testing Supplies Airway Management Consumables Vaccine-related items Relevant Material or Technologies

Key Requirements Private Financing Unavailable on Reasonable Terms DFC-DPA Loan is the Best Way to Meet the Need Reasonable Assurance of Repayment

PURPOSE OF THE CALL

The DFC-DPA Loan Program seeks to catalyze investment over two years for eligible projects that create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities supporting the national response and recovery to the COVID-19 outbreak or the resiliency of any relevant domestic supply chain. Selections will be conducted through a competitive process and subject to thorough due diligence and underwriting. The DFC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has sole discretion in making selections

INVESTMENT QUALIFICATIONS & CHARACTERISTICS

•Applicants should be seeking DFC-DPA Loan Program support for private sector-led investments that support the domestic response to and recovery fromCOVID-19 with investments in health supply chains (including the production anddistribution of PPE, ventilators, therapeutics, diagnostics, vaccines, and othermedical supplies); innovative care delivery systems; digital health and related ITsystems; data science innovations; medical technology and devices;pharmaceuticals; life sciences; and other investments in materials ortechnologies in relevant supply chains (including electronics, manufacturing,machine tools, industrial controls, and raw materials).

•Proposed opportunities and why they are eligible for this financing should bedescribed in the applicant’s submission.

•The investment thesis should reflect the management team’s prior experienceand track record of impact and financial performance.

•DFC is targeting individual investments ranging in size from $10 million to $500+million

.•Except in limited circumstance, the loan should not exceed 80% of the total costof the project.

Applicants must be private businesses, including nonprofit research corporationsand providers of critical infrastructure.

SELECTION CRITERIA

1. Demonstration of how the proposed investments will create, maintain, protect,expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities supporting the nationalresponse and recovery to the COVID-19 outbreak; or the resiliency of anyrelevant domestic supply chain.2. Credibility and thoughtfulness of the proposal; consistency and clarity of theinvestment thesis and proposed strategies.3. Previous track record of the management team making or managing similarinvestments, and the team's experience in relevant sectors.4. Experience, depth, credibility, and cohesiveness of the management team.5. Ability to show a compelling business plan that addresses the current orprojected shortfall of the goods or services being financed.6. The management team’s experience servicing debt obligations or acting as afiduciary in managing institutional capital and meeting reporting requirements.7. Ability to mobilize additional capital within a reasonable time.8. Ability of the project to specify and meet pertinent metrics, articulate how andwhy it will produce specific outcomes, and evaluate performance.

SELECTION PROCESS

Initial Proposals

Each proposal will be reviewed utilizing internal policies and procedures, will require appropriate application materials as specified on the DFC-DPA website, and will be assessed against the criteria of the RFP. The selection process is expected to be very competitive, and the DFC-DPA Loan Program may receive proposals from many highly qualified applicants. Regrettably, the program may not have the capability to support all of the qualified investment opportunities that apply. Those entities not selected for further due diligence review will be notified via email.

Selection of Finalists

Each application that meets the qualification criteria will be screened to determine which applicants will become selected for further consideration.

A project team will be assigned for those selected for further consideration. The project team may reques

additional information from, and conduct on-site due diligence of, finalists. Candidates may be selected for further due diligence based solely on their written proposals.

Recommendations & Approvals

Upon the completion of due diligence (including a credit analysis), the project team will make its recommendation for selecting one or more investments for consideration for approval to the DFC CEO, who has the right to approve or reject every project or no project.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

Visit www.dfc.gov/dpa and submit DFC Form-014 to dpa@dfc.gov. Some questions in the application ask for you to submit specific supporting documentation, and you may attach the additional documentation with your proposal. Once you submit the form, your proposal will be sent to the DFC-DPA staff and will no longer be available for editing. If you need to submit additional supporting documentation for a proposal, please clearly identify the associated proposal in the title and body of the email, as well as in the title of the document being submitted.

DFC reserves the right do move up the deadline to an earlier date, but the deadline will not be extended beyond February 28, 2022, and proposals submitted beyond that date will not be considered.

OTHER

•To obtain a description of the DFC-DPA Loan Program, please visit www.dfc.gov/dpa.

•DFC will not be liable for any costs incurred in connection with the submission ofa proposal.

•DFC reserves the right not to select any of the proposals or to suggest thatproposals be supplemented or combined with other proposals without reinitiatingthe selection process. The issuance of the RFP does not obligate support to anyproposal or any selected project under the DFC-DPA Loan Program.

More information : DFC - DPA LOAN PROGRAM EXECUTIVE ORDER 13922