African Leaders Need to Develop Sustainable Ways of Financing Healthcare

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Although Africa bears 25% of the global disease burden, it accounts for only three percent of global health workers and less than one percent of global health spending. But at the same time, competing demands for donor funding as well as “donor fatigue” mean that the time for over-dependence on international donors has passed.

It is thus now time that African leaders develop sustainable ways of financing healthcare. Securing increased domestic financing for universal health coverage and health security for all African citizens is of paramount importance at the upcoming session of the specialised technical committee on health, population and drug control (STC-HPDC-3) of the African Union.

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