TFID offers waivers and discounts for article processing charges (APCs) for papers whose corresponding authors are based in low-income countries.

TFID offers APC waivers to papers whose corresponding authors are based in countries classified by the World Bank as low-income economies as of July 2021.

Papers whose corresponding authors are based in countries with lower-middle-income economies and with a 2020 gross domestic product (GDP) of less than 200 billion US dollars are eligible for a 50% discount (reference - World Bank 1st July 2021).

Please request your waiver or discount at the point of submission.

For information about our discretionary waiver and discount policies for authors in financial need, please contact the journal at info@thefootindiabetes.com

Low-income countries: full APC waiver

• Afghanistan
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo, Dem. Rep.
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Haiti
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Niger
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Tajikistan
• Togo
• Uganda
• Yemen, Rep.

Lower-middle-income countries with GDP below $200 billion (USD): 50% APC discount

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Cabo Verde
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Comoros
• Congo, Rep.
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Djibouti
• El Salvador
• Eswatini
• Ghana
• Honduras
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kyrgyz Republic
• Lao PDR
• Lesotho
• Mauritania
• Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
• Moldova
• Mongolia
• Morocco
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Nicaragua
• Papua New Guinea
• São Tomé and Principe
• Senegal
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Tanzania
• Timor-Leste
• Tunisia
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• West Bank and Gaza
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe