Africa: Financing Health From Within - How Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar Taxes Can Support Africa's Health Priorities

Africa's health sector is facing an unprecedented funding crisis, driven in part by a sharp decline in external health aid, which has fallen by 70% between 2021 and 2025. This… Read more »

Africa: Lancet Countdown Africa Publishes Landmark Report On Climate Change and Health in Africa

PRETORIA - Climate change is driving economic losses in developing nations. It's slowing progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and worsening threats such as infectious… Read more »

Africa: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty As the Global Fund Secures U.S.$11.34 Billion in Ongoing Replenishment

In 2001, when the late Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations was championed the creation of the Global Fund, he is famously quoted as saying "When I first… Read more »

Africa: Nigeria Health Watch to Host the First Solutions Journalism Africa Summit

For decades, media coverage of Africa has been dominated by a narrow and often negative lens, focusing largely on poverty, hunger, corruption, and conflict. While these issues… Read more »

Africa: Trump Cuts U.S. Aid to Africa. Pregnant Women Lose Needed Medicines

The United States is cutting billions in foreign aid. In Nigeria, pregnant women and others now face higher risks from HIV Read more »

Africa: Helium Credit Is Financing Africa's Private Clinics, One Loan At a Time

Across Nigeria, many privately-owned healthcare facilities face funding bottleneck. Pharmacies watch their shelves empty as they struggle to restock essential drugs. Laboratories,… Read more »

Africa: Enhancing Lassa Fever Medical Countermeasures in West Africa

Lassa fever remains one of the most pressing public health threats in West Africa. According to the Africa CDC, the viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) infects between 100,000 and… Read more »

West Africa: West Africa Unite in Abidjan to Fast-Track Lassa Fever Vaccine and Strengthen Epidemic Preparedness

The 2nd ECOWAS Lassa Fever International Conference (#ELFIC 2025) concluded this Thursday 11 September 2025 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, after four days of high-level… Read more »

West Africa: Strengthening Lassa Fever Vaccine Research and Trial Capacity in West Africa

In West Africa, Lassa fever remains a persistent and recurring health threat, causing hundreds of lives each year and underscoring urgent need for sustained investment in research… Read more »

Africa: Breastfeeding Week 2025 - Empowering African Women By Integrating HIV Prevention Into the First Bonds of Life

During the recently commemorated Pan-African Women's Day (PAWD), we were reminded of the enduring legacy, resilience, and leadership of African women. However, as we celebrated, we… Read more »

Africa: Nigeria Health Watch Announces Fellows for the 2025 Solutions Journalism West Africa Fellowship

Nigeria Health Watch is pleased to announce the selection of 10 fellows for the Solutions Journalism West Africa Fellowship, a four-month programme designed to strengthen the… Read more »

Africa: Sierra Leone's Mpox Surge Puts Africa's Epidemic Preparedness to the Test

The Mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox) continues to make an unsettling return across several communities in West and Central African countries, with Sierra Leone becoming the… Read more »

Africa: The Pandemic Agreement Is Signed - Will It Deliver Justice for Africa?

The final Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) negotiations must be the true test of global equity in health. Read more »

Africa: Africa Needs a Rethink On Global Health Funding - Here's What Must Change

Last week, the world's global health leaders gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 78th World Health Assembly.The corridors buzzed with optimism and concern in equal measure, as… Read more »

Africa: WAHO Expands Lassa Fever Coalition With New Regional Health Partners to Accelerate Vaccine Access in West Africa

Three leading West African health partners: Corona Management Systems, Nigeria Health Watch, and Bloom Public Health, have officially joined the Lassa Fever Coalition, an… Read more »

Africa: Gavi Funding Cuts Could Be Africa's Moment of Reckoning for Vaccine Financing

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has played a pivotal role in ensuring access to vaccines across low-income countries, especially in 40 African countries since 2000. This sustained… Read more »

Africa: Rethinking Sustainable Health Financing in Africa - From Dependence to Partnership

Even though Africa's Health Agenda is closely aligned with the global health agenda, it faces distinct challenges that set it apart, including the ongoing burden of infectious… Read more »

Africa: Reimagining Health Financing in Africa - Navigating the Aftermath of the U.S. WHO Withdrawal

The United States' withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and 90-day pause in foreign aid programmes following President Donald Trump's re-election have sparked a… Read more »