This blog describes the journey of the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center, a knowledge translation platform established in a middle-income country, in revolutionizing policy-making. Learn more about K2P’s successes, challenges and transformations, and how it paved the way towards a world in which the best available evidence informs health policy...

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) is a term commonly used to define a relationship whereby [the] public and private sector [resources] are brought together to achieve a common purpose. PPPs are common across sectors (including the health sector) and geographical settings. The author of this article presents her perspective on the occasional ...

Well into labour, Meera lay ignored on a bed in the labour room of a Sub-divisional District Hospital. She lay there in pain, alone and without a birth companion. She received no information about the birthing procedure or what was about to happen to her. The labour room was managed by a lone nurse, who was busy with other cases or documenting b...

Many countries, including South Africa, have committed to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). South Africa’s potential to achieve this goal is however limited by its reluctance to provide health care to non-nationals. As part of its efforts to achieve UHC, South Africa hopes to implement a Nati...

Distinguished panelists and participants, ladies and gentlemen, We are delighted that this second African Health Forum is taking place here in Cabo Verde, an African Small Island Developing State.  As a Seychellois, I am from an island on the opposite side of our continent. The African sun rises over Seychelles, and sets over Cabo Verde!  Our la...

Over the last few months, tens of thousands of secondary school children in several countries have been protesting for substantial (i.e. truly transformative) climate solutions. Some might call the youngsters movement ‘a good epidemic’, but certain politicians would not agree with that assessment, as in their opinion, “children need to ke...

Many men’s health outcomes are unnecessarily poor, globally, nationally and locally. Average global life expectancy for men lags behind women’s by four years, for example, and there is not a single country where men live longer than women. Around half of the sex difference in mortality from all causes in Europe is due to smoking and one fif...

I still remember the day vividly: I asked my father for money to pay for my high-school tuition. As my father handed me the money, my mother responded, “Why do you keep spending money on her education? She will be married soon, anyhow, and will go to someone else’s home. There is no use for us.” I wonder how my life might have turned out h...

In recent years, Universal health coverage (UHC) has gained political momentum in sub-Saharan African countries. Although countries acknowledge that starting points aredifferent and respective journeys to UHC context-specific, the “how to” needs further elaboration. Hence the importance ofcontextualised evidence to provide tailored answers t...