What $910 Million for the Ebola Response Means for African Health Security
A major financial commitment to fight the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has shown what coordinated African and international action can accomplish during a health emergency. It has also raised a critical question: How quickly can leaders convert financial pledges into the personnel, supplies, and services needed to stop transmission? During a high-level emergency meeting in June […]
What Biopharma’s Naivasha Investment Could Mean
for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Africa A new pharmaceutical manufacturing investment in Kenya could become part of a much larger shift in how Africa produces, distributes and secures essential medicines. Kenya’s Special Economic Zones Authority has signed a lease agreement with Biopharma Limited to establish pharmaceutical manufacturing operations at the Naivasha Special Economic Zone. The company […]
How Conversational AI Is Transforming Patient Care in Africa
A patient in a rural district may travel hours to reach a clinic, wait most of a day, and get ten minutes with an overstretched clinician. Now imagine a portion of that visit never needed to happen. The medication question was answered by text message the night before. The follow-up reminder arrived automatically, in the […]