The COVID-19 Pandemic In Africa: Concerns For Primary Health Care And Spending

The need to ensure health systems resilience globally has never been tested significantly in the past century until the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) took centre stage. The outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in December 2019 has changed many things globally, including how persons interact with each other.

Publication Year:

2020

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

John E. Ataguba
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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…