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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

Publication Year:

2020

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

John 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…

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