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Table 1 The Bolsa Familia Programme (BFP) [30]

From: Modelling the impact of social protection on tuberculosis: the S-PROTECT project

• BFP aims to enhance the human capital of poor Brazilian citizens through an increased utilisation of public services and break the inter-generational transmission of poverty.

• With its 46.5 million beneficiaries around the country, BFP is today the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world.

• BFP targets extremely poor households earning between US $25–50 per person per month.

• Depending on the household composition, the monthly cash benefits range from US $12 to a maximum of few hundreds US dollars depending on household composition.

• Transfers are given under three conditions: 1) attendance of prenatal and postnatal monitoring; 2) access to nutrition and vaccination monitoring for their children aged 0–7 years; 3) school attendance.