How many digital health conferences start with the same tired promise: “We just need to digitalize everything and health data quality will magically improve.” After reviewing PATH’s comprehensive assessment of primary health care data systems across Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria, I can tell you that this Silicon Valley-inspired narrative is dangerously wrong.
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Brain health is central to Africa’s development, but current financing and policy frameworks remain poorly matched to the scale and distribution of need. Upstream economic risks, such as poverty, inequality, food insecurity, unemployment and fiscal constraints, shape neurodevelopment and later-life vulnerability through linked pathways, including prenatal stress, undernutrition, disrupted schooling, chronic psychosocial stress and reduced…
Artificial intelligence joined public health, green hydrogen, astronomy and brain cancer research on the winners’ podium as South Africa’s leading scientists were recognised at the country’s annual “Science Oscars”.
Founder and Group Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has urged global leaders to move beyond aid-based engagement with Africa, insisting that the continent’s young population requires jobs, electricity, and infrastructure, not handouts, to unlock its economic potential.
KINSHASA: The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 3,200, including 1,405 deaths, government data showed on Sunday.
US activist urges Kenya to reject America First Global Health Strategy – The Standard Sports
Clinicians from the University of Cape Town (UCT) are warning about potential dangers in pre-workout supplements in a new study.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — For two decades, donor funding helped build one of the world’s most successful HIV responses. Now, as the United States scales back support, legal scholar Mnotho Ngcobo says Africa is confronting not just a funding crisis, but a constitutional and ethical one.
Health officials were investigating a suspected hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius in the Atlantic Ocean. The World Health Organisation said three people died and at least three others fell ill. At least one infection was confirmed, and one patient remained in intensive care in South Africa. Two more people with symptoms were awaiting…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — HIV activists confronted U.S. officials before the official start of the AIDS 2026 conference over sweeping changes to Washington’s global HIV strategy, accusing the Trump administration of creating a public health emergency through funding cuts, while the United States defended a new financing model that it says will build more sustainable,…