Africa: Community Health Workers the Answer to Continent's Problems

opinion

Nairobi — IT'S ENCOURAGING THAT AS THE Group of Eight richest nations in the world meet in Heiligendamm, Germany, Africa and African health are high on the agenda.

To her credit, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who holds the G8 presidency this year, has singled out strengthening African health systems as a pivotal issue. Disappointingly though, she looks at health systems only in the context of HIV and Aids.

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