Universal Healthcare
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Pipe dream or possibility? The quest for universal healthcare in Africa
Universal healthcare is crucial to realising social and economic potential but countries must rethink how they fund and manage such systems
Digital health has strong potential to enable universal healthcare access
Digital health can improve healthcare access in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural areas, but it internet connectivity remains a challenge
Why Covid likely won’t change the plight of community health workers
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…
Why the public-private partnership to build Lesotho’s only specialist hospital floundered
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…
Spain did it, so why can’t South Africa nationalise healthcare to save lives?
South Africa is working towards establishing a publicly-funded universal health service and now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, is the time to implement it
This president is putting his money where is mouth is when it comes to an NHI
Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.
The Elders fight for health for all, but especially for vulnerable groups
As the development economist and Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen argued in 2015, universal health coverage is “an affordable dream”.
Truth about cataracts is plain to see: They can be treated
More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.