Introduction to Discussion Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Communicable Diseases (CDs) are still a major challenge, especially in Africa. They represent 29.8% and 63.3% of the disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of the NCD […]
Many African countries have struggled to test in sufficient numbers to control the COVID-19 pandemic – primarily testing travellers and patients. Therefore, a large number of cases are not accounted for. Africa, home to nearly 20% of the world’s population […]
Summary of Discussion Africa is about to embark on the largest immunisation drive in the continent’s history. The equitable and efficient rollout of vaccination programs is essential for the focus to return to building our economies and facing the other […]
Background Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Africa to view health from a new perspective. Rather than representing a single, isolated issue, health is now seen as vital and integrated with every other aspect of governments and economies. This highlights […]
Background The conversation on vaccines is absolutely vital and will not reduce in importance any time soon. We will be dealing with issues around the cost of vaccines, vaccine programs, and their availability, safety and reliability well beyond this year. […]
Introduction to Discussion The amount of money spent in Africa on infant vaccines stands at 10% or less. We end up having to depend on GAVI and others for essential vaccines that have been put into our health systems. If […]
Introduction to Discussion Partnerships and collaboration are key to helping manage the disease burden, which is being directly and indirectly affected by lack of blood in Africa. This is truer than ever in a COVID-19 context, where Africa’s blood services […]
Introduction to the Discussion COVID-19 has greatly disrupted our supply chains. The measures to contain the pandemic have triggered unprecedented measures by national governments that have caused local and global trade disruptions. This has threatened our supply chains not only […]
Introduction to Discussion In response to the pandemic, emerging countries can benefit from innovative, low-cost models and should not simply replicate colonial models. This is both because the African context is different from more developed countries and also because Africa […]
Introduction to Discussion Investing in quality health infrastructure makes sense, from both the economic and social angle. As a development economist, he has seen that without quality health infrastructure, it’s impossible to generate the kind of economic development that Africa […]
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish