National Health Insurance Fund NKIF Head Office Dar Es Salaam, Address - Tanzania

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is a Social Health Insurance Scheme established by CAP 395 with the main objective of ensuring accessibility of health care services to all Tanzanians. Despite the compulsory arrangement to Public servants, the Fund has managed to expand its coverage to include councilors, private companies, religious and education institutions, private individuals, children under 18 (TOTO Afya) as well as mutual groups, whereby all members equally accesshealth services in all accredited health facilities. The Fund is also administering the Bunge Health Insurance Scheme, on behalf of the National Assembly.

Management of the Fund

The management of the Fund is vested to the Board of Directors. However, day to day operations of the Fund are overseen by the  

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Director General who is also the secretary to the Board. NHIF is a Government agency under the Ministry of Health Community Development, Gender, Children and Elderly (MHCDGE), which considers health insuarance as a societal affair rather than an individual need and the NHIF operates under the principle of risk sharing and solidarity among members.