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Population health outcomes in Nigeria compared with …

(3 days ago) WebHealth outcomes remain poor in Nigeria despite higher expenditure since 2001. Better outcomes in countries with equivalent or lower health expenditure suggest health system strengthening and …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02722-7/fulltext

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Identifying Key Challenges Facing Healthcare Systems In Africa …

(7 days ago) WebThe average total healthcare expenditure (THE) in African countries stood at US$ 135 per capita in 2010, but only a small fraction of the US$ 3 150 spent on healthcare in an average high-income country. Citation 29 These poor healthcare financing indices are prevalent in Africa despite several declarations signed by African heads of state

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

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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 riorated, and there is an urgent need to invest in sustainable systems for monitoring indicators in the countries – The poor capacity of the health information system to produce reliable routine data: in fact, some indicators

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

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Taking on the Challenges of Health Care in Africa

(4 days ago) WebAccess is still the greatest challenge to health care delivery in Africa. Fewer than 50% of Africans have access to modern health facilities. Many African countries spend less than 10% of their GDP on health care. Also, there is a shortage of trained health care professionals from Africa because many of them prefer to live and work in places

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/taking-challenges-health-care-africa

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Low quality healthcare is increasing the burden of illness and …

(2 days ago) WebPoor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, according to a new joint report by the OECD, World Health Organization (WHO) and the

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/news/low-quality-healthcare-increasing-burden-illness-and-health-costs-globally

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The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by …

(3 days ago) WebSub-Saharan Africa's health challenges are numerous and wide-ranging. Most sub-Saharan countries face a double burden of traditional, persisting health challenges, such as infectious diseases, malnutrition, and child …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31509-X/fulltext

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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 number of malaria-, HIV-1-, and

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

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Low quality healthcare is increasing the burden of illness and …

(5 days ago) WebThe report also highlights that sickness associated with poor quality health care imposes additional expenditure on families and health systems. Health care workers in seven low- and middle-income African countries were only able to make accurate diagnoses one third to three quarters of the time, and clinical guidelines for common

https://www.who.int/news/item/05-07-2018-low-quality-healthcare-is-increasing-the-burden-of-illness-and-health-costs-globally

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Universal Health Coverage in Africa: A Framework for Action

(9 days ago) WebInvestment in Africa’s health systems is key to inclusive and sustainable growth. Strong economic growth in recent years has helped reduce poverty to 43 percent of the population. Yet, as Africa’s population expands—it is estimated to reach 2.5 billion by 2050—the region faces a critical challenge of creating the foundations for long

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/universalhealthcoverage/publication/universal-health-coverage-in-africa-a-framework-for-action

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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 Pandemic Preparedness and Response Authority, governments on the continent are coming together to reduce Africa’s …

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

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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 on health care, less than half of

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

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Healthcare in South Africa: how inequity is contributing to …

(6 days ago) WebSouth Africa has a two-tiered, and highly unequal, healthcare system. The public sector is state-funded and caters to the majority – 71% – of the population. The private sector is largely

https://theconversation.com/healthcare-in-south-africa-how-inequity-is-contributing-to-inefficiency-163753

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How West African countries prioritize health Tropical Medicine …

(5 days ago) WebOur findings revealed that no West African country beats the cutoff of a minimum of 15% health priority index. Ghana (8.43%), Carbo Verde (8.29%), and Burkina Faso (7.60%) were the top three countries with the highest average health priority index, while Guinea (3.05%), Liberia (3.46%), and Guinea-Bissau (3.56%) had the lowest …

https://tropmedhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41182-021-00380-6

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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” programs targeted to specific disease outcomes or “horizontal” efforts to strengthen health systems. Any health system, in sub-Saharan Africa or elsewhere, could adapt this …

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

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Every year nearly 6 million people die in developing countries …

(4 days ago) WebIf you think it is lack of access to healthcare, think again. A recent report by The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems found that 5.7 million people die in low and middle-income countries every year from poor quality healthcare compared with the 2.9 million who die from lack of access to care. In other …

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/effects-and-costs-of-poor-quality-healthcare/

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Health care quality in Africa: Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, …

(1 days ago) WebWith just 1 doctor per 10,000 people the country’s health care system is ranked as 155th out of 191 in the world by the World Health Organization. Zambia. Although Zambia has a basic public health care system, most newcomers and …

https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/living-abroad/culture-lifestyle/health-care-quality-in-africa.html

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Africa triples health workforce in 10 years, but unemployment is a

(1 days ago) WebAfrican countries increased their health workforce from 1.6 million in 2013 to 5.1 million in 2022, alongside improvements in training and data use, a review by the World Health Organization Africa region office has found.1 The decade also saw a 44% increase in the number of countries with national health workforce strategies, from 27 in …

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1092

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Universal Health Coverage: Only Half Of Africans Have Access To …

(1 days ago) WebLess than half of Africa’s citizens (52%) – some 615 million people – have access to the healthcare they need, the continent’s quality of health services is generally poor and the family planning needs of half the continent’s women and girls are unmet. This is according to a report on Africa’s progress toward achieving universal

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/only-half-of-africans-have-access-to-health-care/

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Why South Africa’s Plan for Universal Health Care Stirs Opposition

(7 days ago) WebMay 15, 2024 at 6:17 AM PDT. Listen. 5:35. The South African Constitution promises everyone the right to health care. Yet nearly 85% of the nation’s 62 million people have no medical insurance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-08/why-south-africa-s-plan-for-universal-health-care-stirs-opposition

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The New Humanitarian Why should Africans die in pain?

(6 days ago) WebNAIROBI. Millions of people die needlessly in pain in the Global South each year due to a lack of palliative care and opioid access – interventions that can ease a patient’s suffering over the course of a life-limiting illness. Africa is the worst-affected continent. Only 11 of Africa’s 54 countries have basic palliative care plans or

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2024/05/13/palliative-care-africa-pain

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A new South Africa health law aims at deep inequality, but critics …

(3 days ago) WebSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa shows the signed bill for National Health Insurance signed into law in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday signed into law a new health bill that aims to overhaul the country’s healthcare system but is set to face legal challenges from opposition parties.

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-health-law-elections-e1e15892eaa6efa51cc1bf14959d3453

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Ramaphosa says SA’s current health care system is unsustainable

(8 days ago) WebRamaphosa highlighted that for many years, South Africa had had parallel healthcare systems operating in the country, with about 84% of the population, using public health facilities, while 16% were covered by medical schemes, enabling them to access private health care facilities. A small percentage of people use both, he said.

https://www.polity.org.za/article/ramaphosa-says-sas-current-health-care-system-is-unsustainable-following-nhi-uproar-2024-05-20

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Global life expectancy set to grow by nearly 5 years by 2050 - MSN

(1 days ago) WebNew research predicts a rise in life expectancy worldwide over the next three decades, particularly in Africa. Meanwhile, obesity and other factors are also set to play a larger role in poor health.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/global-life-expectancy-set-to-grow-by-nearly-5-years-by-2050/ar-BB1mxguO

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COVID-19 Vaccine Equity for Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups

(5 days ago) WebCDC Is Committed to Vaccine Equity for Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups. CDC is paving the way in vaccine equity efforts with national, state, tribal, territorial, local, and community partners to ensure that Black or African American people and Hispanic or Latino people have fair and just access to COVID-19 vaccination.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html

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