Boosting Africa’s Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response Capabilities

Introduction to Discussion As part of the 2022 Thought Leadership Series, Africa Health Business (AHB) convened the fourth webinar themed REVOLUTIONISE: Boosting Africa’s infectious disease surveillance and response capabilities. The challenge of infectious disease surveillance, prevention, treatment, and cure is significant;it requires multi-stakeholder partnerships and collaborations. COVID-19 pandemic made it clear that the public and […]
Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems: Managing the Disease Burden

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 are in some cases collecting up to 80% less blood because of schools being closed, […]
Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems:Digital Health

Introduction to Discussion Digital platforms need to be agile enough to adapt to changes in needs. Traditional technology can often not adapt fast enough to be useful in the moment. We can have all the relevant technology, but if our traditional IT applications are not agile enough, it can be the difference between life and […]
Partnerships for COVID-19 in Africa: Testing Tracking and Treating Report

Introduction to Discussion We have not had a better opportunity in Africa before now to cement our efforts on testing, tracking and treating. We have had significant learning since the start of the outbreak of the virus and we need to capitalize on this and continue learning in order to move forward. Our heads of […]
Partnerships for COVID-19 in Africa: Digital Health

Introduction to Discussion COVID-19 started out as a health crisis, but has morphed into an economic, security, and social crisis, exacerbating existing inequalities and creating “shadow pandemics” with consequences well outside of the health sector. It has also reduced access to healthcare significantly, as people are reluctant to seek out services due to fears of […]
Africa Health Business Symposium IV: Bridging the Health Gap

Introduction to Discussion In Africa, the private sector delivers 50% of health services and so governments working with business partners will be key in bringing UHC.The private sector can provide skills, management, and research that can improve health by expanding access to specialised and quality services. They can also add value in areas such as […]
Africa Health Business Symposium III : Achieving UHC in Africa: Stronger Together

Introduction to Discussion A solution to reaching UHC is to create an ecosystem that combines primary care, infrastructure, data science platforms and people management blend it via PPPs and a business model that is Build Operate Transfer (BOT) then you may have one of the solutions. Download the Report
Africa Health Business Symposium II: Transforming PPPs for Health in Africa

Introduction to Discussion Public-Private Health Partnerships (PPP Health) are a new paradigm of public action, likely to combine the efforts of the public sector with efficiency, usually known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).Nowadays, PPPs in health are rare or nonexistent. Download the Report
Inaugural Africa Health Business Symposium: Growing the Business of Health in Africa

Introduction to Discussion Despite the general steady economic growth and positive outlook for further increase in household consumption and business spending, Africa still bears a disproportionately high disease burden. The continent carries 25% of the global disease burden, yet it is home to only about 14% of the world’s population. Despite the high disease burden, […]