The shrinking of international donor funding is causing significant changes in African healthcare. Nigeria and Mozambique demonstrate that it is possible to safeguard healthcare provision when external financing decreases. They do this through greater government involvement, integrated services, and more effective use of existing resources. For many years, numerous health programmes depended on donor-funded projects focused on specific diseases. Such…
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Reversing Medical Tourism in Africa: The Abuja Initiative
Once a prime destination for global elites seeking top-tier medical care in the 1960s, Nigeria’s healthcare landscape has undergone a dramatic shift. Today, the nation faces a staggering financial outflow as its citizens, and other Africans, spend billions abroad for treatment. A landmark new facility in Abuja, however, signals a bold ambition for reversing medical tourism in Africa. This aims…