Policy harmonisation and collaboration amongst governments will play an important role in the ability of African countries to achieve UHC goals. Many African countries are already making progress towards UHC, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the availability and the…
It is high time that Africa starts evaluating the potential of Point of Care (POC) testing and considers methods via which to embed POC into our health systems. POC technologies offer the opportunity for increased diagnostic capacity in resource limited…
Although access to care has increased in Kenya in recent years, barriers continue to persist, particularly among populations living in resource-limited areas. Mobile clinics can improve access by serving as a vital link between the community and clinical facilities. While…
The experts on the panel gave a summary of the current status of the vaccine rollout on the continent, highlighted the primary challenges and identified the opportunities moving forward.  Continue to read a brief summary and some key takeaways of…
The speed at which the COVID-19 vaccine was developed is the medical breakthrough of our lifetimes with the scientific community creating multiple candidate vaccines within a year of the discovery of the novel virus. Now the focus has shifted to…
Now more than ever is the time to invest in Africa’s health sector. Although there are many challenges and barriers, and the COVID-19 pandemic has further widened the glaring gaps in the health sector, there is both the opportunity and…
Furthermore, COVID-19 has disrupted global supply chains, increased the burden on health workers and interrupted continuous care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and treatment of other illnesses like malaria, TB and HIV However, the pandemic has also spurred local manufacturing, increasing…
UHC at the Regional Level Countries are impacted by the choices, policies, successes and failures of the nations that share their borders. This is especially true of public health, as we have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is…
Innovative partnerships, or the linking of organisations with overlapping objectives and goals in order to capitalise on the strengths and accommodate for the weaknesses of each, is the best way for Africa to create and implement solutions that are both…
When rumors of a new virus in China started circulating at the beginning of last year, very few could have predicted the journey that 2020 would take us on. Here in Kenya, it initially felt like a distant problem that…