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Building Africa’s Health Resilience - ifc.org

(Just Now) Africa’s health sector is under enormous pressure and struggles with shortages of skilled doctors and nurses, limited infrastructure, chronic underfunding, and the world’s highest level of maternal and child mortality.

https://www.ifc.org/en/stories/2023/building-africas-health-resilience

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The State of Health System(s) in Africa: Challenges and …

(3 days ago) WEBHealth Systems Issues. Martyn Sama and Vinh-Kim Nguyen hold the view that all societies have had health systems “of some sort” as long as people have tried to …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123888/

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Atlas of African Health Statistics 2022: Health situation

(1 days ago) WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO) is building a better future for people everywhere. Health lays the foundation for vibrant and productive communities, stronger economies, safer nations and a better world. Our …

https://www.afro.who.int/publications/atlas-african-health-statistics-2022-health-situation-analysis-who-african-region-0

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Tackling health poverty risks in Africa: 4 experts weigh in

(5 days ago) WEBAfrica’s push towards public health autonomy is gaining momentum. With the creation of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), African Medicines Agency and the proposed African …

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/autonomy-is-a-game-changer-for-health-systems-in-africa-davos2023/

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Driving new public health agenda in Africa News

(4 days ago) WEBJohn Nkengasong, the founding director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), discusses the challenges and opportunities for improving public health in Africa. He shares his insights …

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/africa-cdc-head-is-driving-a-new-public-health-agenda-on-the-continent/

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Identifying Key Challenges Facing Healthcare Systems In …

(1 days ago) WEBBrainstorming approaches were used in a structured, modified nominal group process exercise to identify key challenges and strategies to mitigate healthcare service …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31819592/

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Identifying Key Challenges Facing Healthcare Systems In …

(7 days ago) WEBThe top four problems of the health sector in African countries identified by individual participants were inadequate human resources (n = 49 respondents, 17.82%), …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2147/IJGM.S223882

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Acting now to strengthen Africa’s health systems McKinsey

(3 days ago) WEBAfrica’s health systems are already struggling and, in some countries, not sustaining routine service delivery. Several other ongoing epidemics have weakened health systems, including Lassa fever in …

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/middle-east-and-africa/acting-now-to-strengthen-africas-health-systems

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Health in Africa Nature Communications

(Just Now) WEBSince 2000, Africa has made historic progress in improving health metrics across all age groups 4. The WHO estimates that the region successfully reduced the …

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45268-1

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The COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare systems in Africa: a …

(3 days ago) WEBFour studies31 32 40 42 showed that healthcare workers had experienced mental health issues due to stressful working conditions and perceived fear of acquiring …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8637314/

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Health in Africa - Nature

(5 days ago) WEBWe aim to promote high-quality research that advances our understanding of health issues in Africa, and advocates for better healthcare on the continent in line with the United …

https://www.nature.com/collections/deefjegjjj

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COVID-19’s impact on overall health care services in Africa

(4 days ago) WEBSource: “The Impact of Covid-19 On HIV, TB and Malaria Services and Systems for Health: A Snapshot From 502 Health Facilities Across Africa And Asia,” …

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/covid-19s-impact-on-overall-health-care-services-in-africa/

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Atlas of African Health Statistics 2022 - World Health …

(8 days ago) WEBAtlas of African Health Statistics 2022 – Health situation analysis of the African Region – Country Profiles NOTE: Some data from international and standardized data sources …

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/364837/9789290234852-eng.pdf?sequence=3

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Africa’s top health forum opens to tackle major challenges

(4 days ago) WEBLomé – The President of the Republic of Togo, H.E President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé opened the Seventy-second session of the World Health …

https://www.afro.who.int/news/africas-top-health-forum-opens-tackle-major-challenges

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Strengthening sub-Saharan Africa’s health systems: A practical …

(9 days ago) WEBThe diagnostic approach we used in the Lake Zone provides a way to move past the debate about whether countries in sub-Saharan Africa should pursue “vertical” …

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare/our-insights/strengthening-sub-saharan-africas-health-systems-a-practical-approach

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Three pillars to strengthening health systems in African countries

(1 days ago) WEBDespite the best intentions, Africa lags far behind the world in COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and therapeutics. The testing rate across Africa is over 40 times …

https://theconversation.com/three-pillars-to-strengthening-health-systems-in-african-countries-173509

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Africa’s changing up public health. The world should take note.

(4 days ago) WEBA lack of government funding for public health is a persistent theme around the continent, and it has created an overreliance on funding from outside donors and …

https://harvardpublichealth.org/global-health/africas-changing-public-health-the-world-should-take-note/

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COVID-19: Urgent call for sustainable healthcare reforms in Africa

(3 days ago) WEBCurrently, less than five countries in Africa meet the Abuja Declaration target set 19 years ago for 15 per cent of public expenditure to be devoted to health, …

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/november-december-2020/covid-19-urgent-call-sustainable-healthcare-reforms-africa

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A new model for public health in Africa can become a reality

(Just Now) WEBThe Africa CDC must coordinate the continental agenda on local manufacturing of these fundamental health-care tools, targeting outbreak-prone as well …

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02749-5

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African Governments Falling Short on Healthcare Funding

(8 days ago) WEBDespite the global surge in public healthcare spending amid the pandemic in 2021, on average African governments spent only 7.4 percent of their national budgets …

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/26/african-governments-falling-short-healthcare-funding

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FACT SHEET: U.S-Africa Partnership in Health Cooperation

(8 days ago) WEBU.S. investments in Fiscal Year 2021 alone enabled the provision of family planning and reproductive health services to 15.4 million African women, averting 4.7 …

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/12/13/fact-sheet-u-s-africa-partnership-in-health-cooperation/

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Boosting efforts to transform care for severe chronic diseases in …

(2 days ago) WEBDar es Salaam – Health experts from across Africa, policymakers, civil society organizations and partners meeting for the first-ever conference on strengthening efforts …

https://www.afro.who.int/news/boosting-efforts-transform-care-severe-chronic-diseases-africa

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Six in ten female youths in low-income East African countries had

(8 days ago) WEBBackground Access to health care services is a basic human right, and an individual’s health and overall quality of life may suffer as a result of barriers to …

https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-024-10934-z

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Harnessing the potential of African youth for transforming health

(4 days ago) WEBAfrica faces a significant burden of infectious diseases, including Malaria and HIV/AIDS, along with an increasing prevalence of non-infectious diseases such as …

https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-024-01039-7

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The COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare systems in Africa: a …

(9 days ago) WEBBackground The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems in both developed and developing nations alike. Africa has one of the weakest health systems globally, …

https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/12/e007179

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Challenges of access to healthcare in SA 30 years after democracy

(3 days ago) WEBIn the South African context, access to healthcare has come a long way. It has always been a huge issue given the history of apartheid as well as the divide between …

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/935952-2/

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Medic 2024: Stakeholders in West Africa makes case for improved …

(Just Now) WEBWith a bustling agenda and strategic activities, Medic West Africa 2024 was an unmatched ideal industry platform for the collaboration of health stakeholders in …

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/medic-2024-stakeholders-in-west-africa-makes-case-for-improved-healthcare/

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Health and Diseases in Africa - PMC - National Center for …

(3 days ago) WEBHistoricizing Health and Disease in Africa. Three important periods are discernible in the history of health and disease in Africa. First is the Paleolithic period, …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122698/

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South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Monday, 22 April

(1 days ago) WEBIn the latest news in South Africa on Monday, 22 April, a FlySafair plane lost a wheel during take-off on Sunday afternoon. Myeni’s corruption trial postponed due to …

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/south-africa-today-s-latest-news-and-headlines-monday-22-april/ar-AA1npRC7

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Black Americans' Views of Racial Inequality, Racism, Reparations …

(5 days ago) WEBIn assessing the magnitude of problems that they face, the majority of Black Americans say racism (63%), police brutality (60%) and economic inequality (54%) are …

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2022/08/30/black-americans-have-a-clear-vision-for-reducing-racism-but-little-hope-it-will-happen/

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Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care: State Disparities

(6 days ago) WEBThis report evaluates disparities in health and health care across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U.S. states. Death rates and …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/apr/advancing-racial-equity-us-health-care

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