Bridging the Healthcare Divide: Private Equity’s Impact on Cardiovascular Diagnostics in Africa
Burden of disease Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of disability and premature death on a global scale, contributing substantially to the escalating costs of health care. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that CVDs are the leading cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year with over 75% of […]
The Crucial Role of the Private Sector in Strengthening Medicines Regulation for Effective Public Health Response in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the urgent need for equitable access to quality healthcare products across Africa, highlighting the necessity of fortifying medicines regulation on the continent. Effective medicines regulation plays a pivotal role in safeguarding public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and quality of healthcare products. In the context of […]
Defining the Private Sector Cascade in the Healthcare Ecosystem
The Africa Health Business (AHB) Symposium – a pan-African conference at the heart of the African healthcare scene – convened on 29 and 30 June in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Symposium assembled African healthcare leaders to discuss solutions that will harness and combat new and existing public health challenges towards attaining the Africa CDC’s New […]
What should an Ideal EMR/EHR System for Sub-Saharan Africa Look Like?
Developing countries, including Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), account for a large percentage of the global disease burden, e.g. Malaria, HIV, Tuberculosis, etc. 1 The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria claim approximately 3 million lives in SSA each year.2 This has further been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Accessing healthcare in SSA poses […]
Key Principles for Realising a New Public Health Order for Africa
The challenge of equitable access to healthcare The challenge of equitable access to healthcare, including medicines and vaccines, in Africa is one that has rightly captured the attention of many for decades. Access to quality healthcare has a direct correlation with economic growth and development as well as productivity rates, and the absence thereof, at […]
Healthcare Challenges and Trends in Africa Bring Opportunities for Innovation to Improve Health
Africa is the second largest continent by population size, home to over 16% of the world’s population. For years, the continent has experienced healthcare infrastructure challenges, including too few doctors or specialists, with only 0.2 physicians for every 1 000 people, equivalent to 1/10th of the available doctors elsewhere in the world. This has a negative […]
The Blood Bank Boom: How Private Investment is Transforming Africa’s Blood Supply
Many of us have witnessed firsthand the devastation caused by blood shortages in African communities. Despite advances in blood transfusion and its critical role in saving lives and improving health outcomes, many African nations continue to face challenges in ensuring adequate and safe blood supply. According to the World Health Organization, developing nations have unequal […]
Reducing the Cancer Burden Amongst Men
Cancer is the third leading cause of death in Kenya and causes over 27,000 deaths each year (Globocan, 2020). This is despite 30-50% of cancers being preventable through vaccination, risk reduction, screening and early detection which would markedly reduce the burden of cancer (WHO, 2021) Among Kenyan men, the leading cancers are prostate cancer (21.9 […]
Diabetes – An Urgent Need for Multilateral Efforts to Provide Access to Treatment and Health Education
To have or not to have sugar? World Diabetes Day (WDD) takes place on November 14 and was created in 1991 by International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. WDD became an official United Nations Day in 2006 and is reaching a […]
Connecting the Dots for Men’s Health Through the Global Health Connector Partnership
The digital health is health landscape in Africa is growing at an exponential rate, with Sub-Saharan Africa being an implementation hub of digital health innovations as a tool towards health systems strengthening on the continent. The COVID-19 pandemic proved a pivotal time for the scale-up of digital health innovations, with the overloading of the already […]
