Author(s): Olanrewaju Tejuoso, Gafar Alawode, Elaine Baruwa Date of Publication: 11 Apr 2018 Link to original document   A country health system that fulfills its responsibilities to citizens cannot function in isolation it needs good governance in terms of policy making, appropriations, oversight, and accountability mechanisms. That is, democratically elected governments/legislatures must pass informed policies…

Author(s): World Bank Date of publication: June 7, 2017 Link to original document   The Ebola outbreak exposed the weaknesses in Liberia’s health care delivery services, already greatly incapacitated by the time the World Bank and other development partners intervened in it in September 2014. The dilapidated state of the country’s public health care included…

Auteur(s): Franck Kuwonu Date de publication: Décembre 2016 – Mars 2017 Lien vers le document original   Selon une étude d’Afrobaromètre, un réseau de recherche panafricain indépendant qui réalise des sondages d’opinion, près de la moitié des personnes interrogées dans 36 pays africains disent n’avoir pas eu accès aux soins médicaux qu’elles désiraient en 2014…

Author(s): Andrew Green, The Lancet Date of Publication: February 2017 Link to original document   Gambia’s new president has stated that maternal and child health will be his first priority and experts are hoping for a new focus on health in the country. Andrew Green reports. Following a tumultuous, but ultimately peaceful handover of power…

Auteur(s): Amaury De Féligonde Date de publication: 15 mai 2017 Lien vers le document original   La santé en Afrique a été plombée par des années de sous-investissement et de croissance démographique accélérée : l’Afrique sub-saharienne compte 1 médecin et 10 lits d’hôpital pour 10.000 habitants (l’OMS préconisant un ratio de 7 médecins et 30…

Auteur(s): Allwell Okpi Date de publication: 5 avril 2018 Lien vers le document original   Le gouvernement nigérian a une « mauvaise politique » de financement des soins de santé, a récemment déclaré un quotidien national. Pour appuyer son point de vue, il a comparé les dépenses de santé du Nigeria à celles de l’Afrique…

Author(s): Bulletin of the World Health Organization Date of Publication: December 2010 Link to original document   In April 2010, Sierra Leone launched its first free health-care initiative aimed at improving abysmal maternal and child mortality rates (one in eight women risk dying from the complications of childbirth and one in 12 children die before…

Author(s): Hannah Mitchell Date of Publication: Wed 8 Mar 2017 Link to original document   Corruption in healthcare is a taboo subject, with both patients and staff often reluctant to admit its existence. But it does exist. And it extends from mismanagement at high levels of government to bribes and unauthorised charges for frontline services.…

Author(s): Frank Sainworla,Jr & William Selmah Date of Publication: October 2, 2017 Link to original document   One of Liberia’s national Agenda for Transformation goals is to improve the quality of life by investing in more accessible and higher quality healthcare, as well as expanded access to healthy and environmentally-friendly water and sanitation services. But…

Author(s): Kingsley Ighobor Date of Publication: December 2016-March 2017 Link to original document   Osahon Enabulele, a former president of the Nigerian Medical Association, estimates there are about 8,000 Nigerian doctors in the United States. Yet in their motherland, only about 35,000 doctors attend to the country’s 173 million citizens, according to Folashade Ogunsola, a…