The HealthcareLCA database is an interactive tool for exploring health care’s significant environmental impact. It can inform changes in health policy and practice, and identify areas for research.
To attain a new health order, African governments need to bolster investment in research and development, innovation and manufacturing of health tools.
Budgets on their own don’t solve structural issues. But they do provide some insight into government plans for addressing its broader developmental priorities.
Relying on donor funding means that the funder ultimately determines the health priorities. This is one reason why many programmes in Africa focus on a single disease such as HIV.
Most facilities prioritize COVID-19 cases. In addition, curfews are still in effect in Kenya, which affects the working hours of clinics providing hypertension care services.
There are three phases to Australia’s response plan. The ‘Initial Action’ stage, the ‘Targeted Action’ stage, and finally, the ‘Standdown’ stage. Right now, we’re in the first.
The emergency in the DRC shows that despite all these positive changes, the global response to containing Ebola outbreaks is undermined by the lack of health care and public health infrastructure.
Co-Director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi. Chancellors Fellow, Institute of Immunonology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor, Paul G Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University