Universal healthcare is crucial to realising social and economic potential but countries must rethink how they fund and manage such systems
Digital health can improve healthcare access in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural areas, but it internet connectivity remains a challenge
In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights, with a nationwide strike planned from 9 November.
It was hailed as a revolution in private investment in healthcare in Africa, but almost a decade after it was opened, Lesotho’s only specialist hospital takes up almost a third of the country’s entire health budget. Now, we may finally know why
South Africa is working towards establishing a publicly-funded universal health service and now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, is the time to implement it
Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.
As the development economist and Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen argued in 2015, universal health coverage is “an affordable dream”.
More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.