Browsing: healthcare in Africa

• 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 …

• GE Healthcare and Kenya-based startup Afya Rekod have entered a strategic collaboration to transform care delivery through improved access to personal health data
• Afya Rekod said they would focus on Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, where they will give patients an accessible record of their health history
• The access will include radiological images by enabling hospitals and diagnostic centres to host health records securely on one platform through a digital application
• Afya Rekod was founded in Kenya in 2019 and operates in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Zambia and the United States

US-based GE Healthcare and Kenya-based startup Afya Rekod have entered a strategic collaboration to transform care delivery through improved access to personal health data.

In a statement, Afya Rekod said they would focus on Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, giving patients an accessible record of their health history. The company has a health record management platform built to …