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The contributors address various aspects of the challenges and opportunities of healthcare delivery in Africa. Chinua Akukwe, in an overview article, articulates reasons for a renewed focus on Africa's healthcare delivery systems. Bience Gawanas, Commissioner of Social Affairs at the Africa Union Commission whose portfolio includes health, discusses African Union's responses to the health challenges in the continent and argues that the "Africa...

Africa's healthcare crises is well documented, even if not always accurately. What is undeniable is that millions of Africans are dying - from HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis, malaria and other illnesses - some of them easily preventable. Dr Akukwe examines the healthcare policies on Africa's major diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, showing how the healthcare crisis is bound up with, and worsens the general crisis of poverty in the continen...

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The challenges to better health services in Africa are well known: Africa lags behind all regions of the world, including other developing regions, on all indicators of better health. A recent report from the World Health Organisation for instance shows that while Africa has 20% of the world's sick people, it has only 4% of its healthcare workers - many of them vulnerable to the high mortality rate associated with malaria and notably the AIDS ...

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