Africa Must Increase Spending On Health Care, Education & Modern Contraception

18 October 2018

Yaounde, Cameroon — One of the main challenges which we are facing across Africa today is the imperative to empower its largest ever young population and to provide them with opportunities to realise their full potential.

This calls for crucial and sustainable investments into young people's needs - their healthcare, their education - and of course, ensuring that they have access to modern contraception to allow them to take charge of their own futures, and also help to stabilise the fertility rate. All of this will contribute to the realization of the African Union Agenda 2063.

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