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Hiring more doctors will not solve Kenya’s health crisis
The fact that Africa has less doctors than the rest of the world has frequently been identified as one of the root causes of the continent’s health challenges.
In Kenya, for instance, the doctor to patient ratio is 1 to 17,000 against the World Health Organisation’s recommended ratio of 1 to 1,000. However, increasing the number of doctors in service is not the silver bullet to Africa’s health challenges, says Read More -
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Global health agenda promoted at expense of Africa
Health is today viewed as a key aspect of human and economic development. This is a view championed by the United Nations after Member States endorsed the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a blueprint of the global development agenda through to 2030. SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing) entrenched Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as a development priority for all countries. Naturally, UHC has today become a key talking point among health and policy experts across both deve
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