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- Angola’s $5M boost is a turning point in Africa CDC’s continued push to rally political leadership, domestic financing, and unified continental action around the New Public Health Order and the Lusaka Agenda.
- Angola’s initiative comes in the wake of 70% decrease in foreign financing of health programmes in Africa amid declining flow of development assistance from the US.
- For decades, USAID has been a primary source of financing for various health programmes in African economies, but the funding freeze and potential cuts announced this early this year continue to threaten key systems
- Angolan President João Lourenço made the $5 million funding announcement after a meeting with Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of Africa CDC.
Oil-rich Angola has pledged to pay Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) a total of $5 million as part of championing homegrown health financing plan by economies across the continent.
The move, which …
- New report identifies 24 leading Africa-focused supply chain innovators who are at the forefront of this transformation.
- These innovators have partnered with over 100 manufacturers and 75 public health institutions, reaching more than 50,000 providers and directly delivering health products to approximately nine million consumers.
- Collectively, these supply chain leaders have generated nearly $200 million in annual revenues.
A new wave of innovation is powering health product access in Africa, reshaping how medical products are accessed across the continent. Despite the formidable challenges posed by economic pressures and declining investments in technology, a select group of innovators is rising to the occasion, delivering solutions that promise to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and reliable for millions of Africans.
A recent market intelligence report by Salient Advisory, funded by the Gates Foundation, sheds light on these trailblazers, highlighting the innovative approaches they are taking to pioneer health product access in …
- A severe shortage of health workers in Africa is undermining access to and provision of health services even though countries in the region have tried to bolster the workforce
- A study by the World Health Organization (WHO) found that the region has a ratio of 1.55 health workers (physicians, nurses and midwives) per 1000 people
- The figure is below the WHO threshold density of 4.45 health workers per 1000 people needed to deliver essential health services and achieve universal health coverage
- The shortage is a consequence of several factors, including inadequate training capacity, rapid population growth and international migration
A new report has indicated that a severe shortage of health workers in Africa is undermining access to and provision of health services even though countries in the region have tried to bolster the workforce.
The report by the World Health Organization (WHO) dubbed “The health workforce status in the WHO …
- Kenya’s First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has urged investors to increase funding into Africa’s reproductive, maternal, adolescent, and child health systems
- She invited global financiers to back Africa’s weak maternal and child health systems, which she said were overstretched by societal challenges
- Kenyatta also called for increased screening of particularly cervical and breast cancers, saying the two variants had the highest mortality rates on the continent
Kenya’s First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has urged investors to increase funding into Africa’s reproductive, maternal, adolescent, and child health systems.
Speaking on Friday, February 25, Kenyatta noted that private-public partnerships were viable for raising resources to support the sector.
She invited global financiers to back Africa’s weak maternal and child health systems, which she said were overstretched by societal challenges. These include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), teenage pregnancies, and early pregnancies marriages.
“Through private-public partnerships and collective investments, we could deepen our …
