Rwanda’s government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
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Top-down reforms like those proposed in the NHI Bill need to be complemented by a bottom-up process of health system strengthening.
Women and children remain the focus of HIV while men are disadvantaged in accessing testing and treatment in Africa.
Considerable effort has gone into improving laboratory services in many African countries. But the quality of tests is questionable.
Lassa outbreaks are becoming more widespread in Nigeria but have not been given national emergency status like Ebola.
Health care systems in many African countries are very poor. Instead of fixing them, many African leaders seek medical attention abroad incurring huge bills which are ultimately paid by taxpayers.
How will the World Health Organisation’s Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus deal with the mounting challenges? Africa’s academics have some tips.
The myth of compassion fatigue suggests that compassion is a finite resource. The reality is that health-care providers are over-worked and need better institutional support.
Selecting immigrants on points is likely to result in them being healthy, or at least healthy enough for them not to put much strain on our exhausted health systems.
There are a number of challenges that the World Health Organisation’s new leader, Ethiopian-born Tedros Ghebreyesus, will have to navigate during his tenure.
Africa is expected to have among the steepest increases in the number of people affected by non-communicable diseases - it needs health care systems that can cope.
The power to overcoming Ebola was in public awareness by performing simple yet basic infection prevention and control measures like washing hands, isolation and reporting suspected cases.
Irrespective of whether climate change contributed to the thunderstorm in Melbourne last week, we can be sure Australia’s climate projections herald new risks to health that cannot be ignored.
Healthcare that everyone can access is an important step in bridging the inequality in a country. In reality though, its hard to implement properly.
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of Sydney
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Specialist Scientist, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape
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Co-Director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi. Chancellors Fellow, Institute of Immunonology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor, Paul G Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Clinical Laboratories, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Lecturer in Climate Change and Health, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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