Access to medicines, vaccines and other health technologies is central to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) across Africa. UHC refers to access to high-quality health services for all with financial protection. It is a global health and development agenda which has received widespread attention and endorsement by global leaders, most not...

The World Health Organisation  (WHO) estimates that there will a shortage of at least 18 million health workers globally by 2030 if drastic measures are not put in place to create health sector jobs and improve the working conditions for health workers. The Africa region has an estimated additional requirement of 6.1 million health workers by 20...

The alienation that arises from the conflict between the social nature of man on the one hand, and the anti-social goals of the neoliberal economic system on the other, makes people mentally and physically sick. This is demonstrated by a large amount of scientific evidence from the last ten years. Shortly after the outbreak of the great recessio...

Public Finance Management (PFM) refers to the set of arrangements concerning revenue mobilization, resource allocation, expenditure and accountability for public funds. These arrangements exist to enable government to meet fiscal policy goals including pursuing equity and fostering growth and development. The greater role of public resources in ...

The world has made a promise – one designed to end poverty, promote peace and prosperity for all. Not only is Universal Health Coverage (or UHC for short) key to achieving the third of these 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it is a foundational pin for Every. Single. One. From education and gender equality to partnerships and economic growth,...

The attainment of UHC is by no means a simple path. Challenged by the disruptive trends of climate change, changing epidemiological patterns, poverty and inequity in many countries, the need to strengthen health system performance for UHC has become more critical than ever. Albeit slow, there has been incremental progress to place health on the...

En Guinée, l’accès aux soins de santé est un droit pour tous. Cependant, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays en voie de développement, la majorité de la population n’y a pas accès. Plusieurs facteurs favorisent cette inaccessibilité, parmi lesquels la pauvreté et le manque de personnel de soins et d’infrastructures, auxquels vienne...

“In many conversations, youth mentioned that they will be approaching policy makers for funds to travel to Rwanda for the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), many policy-makers and civil society organisations discussed their plans for ICASA, Beijing25, … We are moving from one meeting to the next, it seems. Not sure th...

(You find the translation in French below) The 2010 World Health Report recognised that health financing is both a driver and an outcome of sustainable development, while the 2018 Astana declaration emphasised the importance of health financing as a crucial element in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the health-related Sustainabl...