Table 4 Summary of the actors' perceptions of the impacts of fees abolition
| Â | Women | Health workers | Members of management committees |
|---|---|---|---|
Positive impacts | Promotes medical evacuation Reduced costs of treatment | Increased number of visits Earlier visits Promotes medical evacuation Emergence of new drugs Helpful arrival of NGO interns | Brings comfort to the target populations |
Negative impacts | Abolition does not eliminate all costs Multiple-dose medications require repeat visits to the CSI Health workers' sometimes scornful attitude, assuming that women are pretending to be ill to obtain drugs | Patients in the target groups becoming more demanding | Nurses monopolizing the management of inputs Management committees pushed aside |