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Title:Healthcare delivery in Africa: issues, choices, challenges and opportunities
Editor:Akukwe, ChinuaISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:African Renaissance (ISSN 1744-2532)
Volume:3
Issue:4
Pages:196
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subject:health care
Abstract:This special issue focuses on critical issues that impact the delivery of health care in sub-Saharan Africa. A central theme is the need for Africans to assume leadership in developing and implementing a system of health care that is relevant to the needs of intended recipients. In an introductory overview, Chinua Akukwe lists ten reasons for a renewed focus on Africa's health care delivery systems. Kenneth Simuyi and Aman Ali assess the prospects of health care delivery in Africa by 2020, which are not promising. Subsequent articles address various responses to the health challenges on the continent: that of the African Union (Bience Gawanas) and Nigeria's Better Life Program for the African Rural Woman (by the former First Lady, Maryam Babangida), as well as the roles and responsibilities in meeting Africa's health care needs of diaspora scientists and health care professionals (Alphonsus O. Obayuwana and Ann L. Carter-Obayuwana), national army medical corps (A.E. Ajemba), civil society (Peace Obiajulu), US universities (John F. Williams et al.) and the private sector (Hillary Thomas-Lake). The edition also includes articles on the worsening challenges of sourcing human resources for health care in sub-Saharan Africa (Gilbert C. Kombe and John Fieno), the role of medical tourism in Africa's health care system (Tshepo P. Maaka), critical issues in the monitoring and evaluation of health care delivery (Osarobo Adeghe), the silence in the discussion of AIDS (Raymond Downing) and possible strategies for devising a culturally appropriate theatre-for-development which could be deployed in the fight against HIV/AIDS (Osita Okagbue). Chinua Akukwe concludes with a review of the issues, challenges and opportunities in community oriented primary care. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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