Each life lost to Aids is a life too many. As donor funds dry up, Africa needs new ways to fight this epidemic.
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Primary health care systems must become more resilient as the effects of climate change worsen.
To attain a new health order, African governments need to bolster investment in research and development, innovation and manufacturing of health tools.
Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
How will the World Health Organisation’s Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus deal with the mounting challenges? Africa’s academics have some tips.
Palliative care improves the quality of life for patients and families facing problems associated with life threatening illnesses.
Africa is expected to have among the steepest increases in the number of people affected by non-communicable diseases - it needs health care systems that can cope.
Africa battles with a dearth of data and seems unable to scale up health innovations. If these can be systematically addressed, the continent can take great strides towards better health for all.
Africa is the last continent to embrace the need to train family physicians as a key component of the primary health care team and district hospitals.
Top contributors
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Specialist Scientist, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy, Addis Ababa University
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Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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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
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Research fellow in Public Health, Africa University
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Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine, Aga Khan University
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Lecturer in Planetary Health, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Dr Yogan Pillay is the director for HIV and TB delivery at the Bill and Melinda Gates and He is currently extraordinary professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Senior Director, Emerging Threats and Global Health Security, FIND, Geneva, Switzerland and Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Infectious disease and public health expert, University of Verona