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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…