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Health financing in Africa: Overview of a Dialogue Among High Level Policy Makers

Even though Africa has the highest disease burden compared with other regions, it has the lowest per capita spending on health. Methods employed in the session included presentations, panel discussion and open public discussion with ministers of health and finance from the African continent.

Publication Year:

2011

Publisher

BioMed Central

Author:

Luis Gomes Sambo, Joses Muthuri Kirigia & Georges Ki-Zerbo
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…

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