A/HRC/44/40/Add.3 • The People's Housing Program (PHP) is a one of Ministry’s program to meet the needs of residential homes for the low income group below RM3,000 including squatters. There are a total of 195 projects all over Malaysia. The rental price PHP’s unit are as low as RM124 (USD30) per month and its selling price is RM35,000 at Peninsular Malaysia or RM42,000 at Sabah and Sarawak. • The Ministry has taken the initiative to develop a National Affordable Housing Policy (DRMM), which is a subset of the National Housing Policy (DRN) to outline standards, specifications and guidelines for affordable housing development under the category of public and social housing developed by the Federal Government, State Government or the private developer. • DRMM outline key aspects of sustainable housing criteria towards achieving the objectives of affordable housing such as:(i) features and design of the house encompass the size of the house, access to transportation, public and safety facilities; (ii) quality of home construction; (iii) house prices based on income; and (iv) improvement of affordable rent rates. Paragraph 34 The more recent focus on the B40 population means a large number of households receive cash transfers, but the payments are too small to make a real difference. Such transfers could do more if targeted to focus on poorer households or those with more children—or more importantly, if overall funding were increased. Furthermore, many of those who most need social protection or cash transfers appear unaware of the programs or unable to access them. Many of the struggling low-income families with whom the Rapporteur met were receiving no support whatsoever. Comments from the Government of Malaysia: • The Ministry of Finance (MoF) manages cash transfer (Bantuan Sara Hidup) for B40. MOF sets the income thresholds for BSH recipients which is below RM4,000 and with certain specific criteria. Moving forward, the threshold for recipients and amount shall be standardized. This will enable standard thresholds for B40 assistances by other Government/agencies to the target groups in eliminating inclusion and exclusion error. Healthcare Paragraph 35 Malaysia is justifiably proud of its health care services which are reasonably accessible for most of the population. Despite a relatively low level of public expenditure on health, households receive protection from the financial risks of high healthcare costs—where care is accessible. According to the World Bank, only 1.4 percent of households experience catastrophic health expenditure. Comments from the Government of Malaysia: • For 2018, number of health clinics are 1085, community clinics (1796) and mobile health clinics (329 teams). Health Care Provider involved directly in health facilities are doctors (57.831), Assistant Medical Officer (17.274), Nurses (106,289) and Family Medicine Specialist (309) as shown in figure 6. NHMS 2011 reported that 88.5% of the population stays within 5 km of a health facility and 81% lived within 3 km. Same study highlighted that basic health care and facilities are accessible to about 70% of the population in Sabah and Sarawak and more than 95% of the population in Peninsular Malaysia. • These study excluded outreach services such as flying doctors, mobile health teams, dental clinics, travelling dispensaries and riverine services which as geographical challenges. Evolution of health services has undergone changes overtime significantly since 1960’s 15