The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) was launched in December 1999, to which medical schemes may voluntarily belong. The vision of BHF is "a private healthcare funding system that ensures lifetime access to comprehensive and affordable healthcare for the average working person".
The Board of Healthcare Funders is a non-for-profit association of schemes of Southern Africa.
The BHF membership consists of more than 95% of all medical schemes in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. This is in keeping with BHF's regional focus and in sequence with common market developments in the South African Developing Community (SADC).
