Par Felix Abrahams Obi Au moment où la pandémie COVID-19 fait rage, les gouvernements africains et d’autres continents sont confrontés à la difficile décision de rouvrir leurs économies et de […]
July Reflections
You cannot have development in today’s world without partnering with the private sector – Hillary Clinton Typically, discussions about the private sector revolve around the private-for-profit sector. Although this is […]
The Whole of Society Approach to COVID-19: Role of Private Sector
By Felix Abrahams Obi As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, governments across Africa and other continents are grappling with the tough decision of reopening their economies and also protecting the health […]
June Reflections
How can countries leverage data/information for purchasing at this critical time, given that we know that in most countries in Africa, the systematic use of data for decision-making is still not optimal?
Strategic Purchasing Amidst Uncertainties: How Can Evidence Be Harnessed To Support COVID-19 Response In Africa?
“Posterity may forgive me if I make the wrong decision, but posterity will never forgive me should I fail to make a decision” – Olusegun Obasanjo (Former President, Federal Republic […]
May Reflections
The world Health Organization asserts that a strategic purchaser prioritizes primary healthcare (PHC) and protects funding for those services. In the wake of COVID-19, it appeared that primary healthcare services […]
The COVID-19 Pandemic In Africa: Concerns For Primary Health Care And Spending
In this blog post, John Ataguba argues that primary healthcare in Africa has had a chequered history and COVID-19 is only exploiting gaps that already existed in provision of essential services. He provides recommendations for how this can be remedied
Rationing of Health Services During a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a lot of health system challenges that cut across financing for the pandemic, service delivery, quality of care and continuum of care for other medical […]
What is Strategic Health Purchasing?
To understand that, we need to ask ourselves “what is purchasing?” Purchasing is the third function of health financing and so perhaps to really understand purchasing and strategic purchasing, we […]