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Re-engineering the Health Workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa’s attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) largely depends on the availability of a skilled, equipped and adequately supported health workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as disease outbreaks such as Ebola, have delayed UHC progress and left a strain on the health system. Africa’s socio-economic success post pandemic is anchored in the recovery of its health system, which relies on the health workforce. There is therefore an urgent need to comprehensively resolve the health workfor
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Social Enterprises Key to UHC Success In Kenya
Kenya is making commendable progress in the push to attain universal health coverage (UHC) for all its citizens. UHC is about financial protection and equity in access to quality health services that address the most significant causes of disease and death, and ensures that the quality of these services is good enough to improve the health of the people receiving them. A pointer to the progress Kenya is making in UHC is increased NHIF enrolment. In 2018, NHIF membership rose 23 per cent on an annual basis to 7.7 million people, with most of the new members coming from the informal sector. T
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West Pokot Makes Landmark Move by Passing Kenya’s First Ever Stand-alone County Facility Improvement Fund Bill
In a ground breaking move to increase investments in health towards universal health coverage (UHC), West Pokot County has enacted Kenya’s first stand-alone County Facility Improvement Fund (FIF) Bill.
With the support of Amref Health Africa in Kenya, West Pokot County set out to ring-fence revenues generated by health facilities for use in improving health infrastructure and other essential services towards UHC through the FIF bill.
Following a consultative meeting by health stakeholders w
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Communiqué: 2019 Africa Health Agenda International Conference
WE, the participants from government, private sector, civil society, parliamentarians including youth advocates, media, health professionals and community representatives attending the third Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) in Kigali, Rwanda, from March 3-7 and comprising more than 1,800 participants from 49 countries; HAVING shared progress and strategies on how Africa can accelerate attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) under the AHAIC 2019 theme 2030 Now: Multi- sectoral Action to Achieve Univ
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Universal Health Coverage and Adolescent-Responsive Health Systems for Adolescents Living with HIV
By Maria Tororey, Paediatrics and Adolescents Officer, Amref Health Africa in Kenya Universal Health Coverage strategies aim to avail appropriate, effective and affordable interventions to improve adolescent health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), to make progress toward universal health coverage, a number of transitions in service delivery, workforce capacity and financing will be needed. Adolescents living with HIV and AIDS (ALHIV) represent a vulnerable group as they not only experience issues that affect people living with HIV, but also those that affect adole
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UHC2030 launches ‘Key Asks from the UHC Movement’ for the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage
4 April 2019 Following a multi-stakeholder consultation process earlier this year, UHC2030 is pleased to present the final set of political 'Key Asks' for the process leading up to and during the UN High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) on 23 September 2019. As we move towards the multi-stakeholder meeting on 29 April, and the UN HLM on 23 September, now is the time for us all to galvanise our efforts around a set of crucial political messages. With a set of Ke
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Let Me Tell You a Story about Water
By Arthur Mwai, Project Assistant, Child Focused Development Project Kilifi Tell me a story about a place across a bridge where the river with many names snakes its way into the Indian Ocean. A place so hot and humid that it leaves you feeling parched with thirst to a point of delirium. Under the merciless sun and noon day heat, no creature dares make any unnecessary movement. Listless and panting. Goats and cows jostle under the shade of a handful branches of scrawny trees. About three kilometres off the Malindi-Lamu highway is Bandacho village. Windswept fields of sand
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Achieving UHC in Africa Requires Support for Most Vulnerable, Experts Say
By Christin Roby KIGALI, Rwanda — Achieving universal health coverage remains a challenge in Africa, where customized, quality, and affordable essential health services that meet local demands and reach vulnerable populations often remains an option for a limited few. On Tuesday, as the second biennial Africa Health Agenda International Conference kicked off in the rainy hills of Kigali, Rwanda, some 1,500 health advocates repre
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