News & Events
18/07/2012 - The Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA) mechanism organized a High-level dialogue among African ministers of finance and health on Value for Money, Sustainability and Accountability in the Health Sector. The conference emphasized the urgent need for greater domestic accountability, reduced dependence on foreign aid and value for money in the delivery of health services in Africa.
Categories: Health, Human and Social Development
13/07/2012 - Au titre de l’aide d’urgence pour le renforcement de la surveillance épidémiologique du choléra ; SEM Abdou Karim MECKASSOUA, Ministre d’Etat du Plan et à l’Economie pi. , Gouverneur de la BAD ; Mr. Modibo SANGARE, Représentant Résident de la BAD en RCA et Dr. Zakaria MAÏGA Représentant de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) en RCA, ont signé, le 12 juillet 2012 à Bangui, la lettre d’accord tripartite (Gouvernement, BAD et OMS).
Categories: Central African Republic, Health, Human and Social Development
10/07/2012 - Times are changing. Increasingly, health professionals are accountable for the way they use the resources, the services they avail to people and more generally, the results they deliver. In the wake of the Arab Spring and the progress of democracy throughout the African continent, the push of citizen’s voice is amplifying this trend.
Categories: Health, Human and Social Development
10/07/2012 - Achieving the Health Millennium Development Goals (WHO) in Africa will require substantial investments in training a dynamic and skilled health workforce. Most countries in Africa are experiencing significant underfunding of the health sector which co-exists with critical health workforce shortages, maldistribution and inadequate performance. Health sectors in Africa are facing serious challenges in producing, employing, incentivizing, motivating and managing results based performance.
Categories: Health, Human and Social Development
10/07/2012 - High-profile speakers like Dr. Babatunde Osotimehim, Executive Director for UNFPA and Hans Rosling, Chairman of Gapminder Foundation spoke at length about the importance of family planning in Africa during the high level dialogue between Ministers of Finance and Health on “Value for Money, Sustainability and Accountability” which was held in Tunis, Tunisia on July 4-5, 2012. The conference was organized by the African Development Bank and other Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA) partners.
Categories: Health, Human and Social Development
10/07/2012 - Spurred by technological innovations, a revolution in ehealth is taking place in Africa. A large part of this revolution is due to the phenomenal growth in mobile phone usage in Africa – at 281 million users it is now the biggest market in the world. Internet use is still comparatively low, but is set to grow fast. With advanced access to information and services, the continent’s achievements in ehealth are likely to be dwarfed by a connected Africa.
Categories: Health, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development
10/07/2012 - Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed unprecedented declines in child mortality over the past two decades. The average child mortality rate decreased from 174 per 1,000 in 1990 to 121 per 1,000 in 2010 and the rate of decline has increased from 1.9 percent a year over 1990–2000 to 2.5 percent a year over 2000–2010 according to UNICEF. Research shows that there is an accelerated decline in child mortality and in 34 countries of the region and the rate of decline increased during the MDG period from 2000 as compared to the previous decadei.
Categories: Health, Human and Social Development
10/07/2012 - African Finance and Health Ministers as well as parliamentarians, civil society, bilateral and multilateral partners gathered in Tunis, and agreed to intensify multisectoral dialogue and collaboration amongst themselves, Parliamentarians, and technical and financial partners, to improve health policies and programmes that promote better value, accountability and sustainability of health investments in the continent.
Categories: Health, Human and Social Development
10/07/2012 - Many African countries are facing increasing demands for health financing with fewer limited resources available and dwindling donor financing. This disconnect compels African countries to come up with innovating financing mechanisms to achieve Millennium Development Goals.
Categories: Lesotho, Health, Human and Social Development
05/07/2012 - African finance and health ministers, parliamentarians, civil society organizations, private sector and representatives of bilateral and multilateral development institutions, began a two-day meeting on health financing on Wednesday in Tunis.
Categories: Tunisia, Health, Human and Social Development
