Nigeria's maternal mortality ratio: 1,047 deaths per 100,000 live births. The global average: 152 per 100,000. That gap is policy.
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Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 70% of all maternal deaths worldwide. 260,000 women died from pregnancy and childbirth-related causes globally in 2023. Africa carries most of that grief. 🧵
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Fund Africa CDC from within—and hold it accountable: A call from a firm believer in its promise. Holding Africa CDC to high standards is not criticism—it is belief in its future. By Luchuo Engelbert Bain Engelbert Bain, MD, PhD, FAAS.

In this article, Dr Luchuo Engelbert Bain makes the case for funding Africa CDC from within and holding it accountable. A must-read framework for the next chapter of African health governance.
🔗 Link: www.linkedin.com/pulse/fund-a...
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A question for the room: If the choice is between no funding at all and funding with strings attached, which is worse for African health systems? 🧵
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America is back in African health, but this time, it looks very different. 🧵
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This week, the world marked #WorldTBDay, but here's a number worth sitting with: 88%. That's the treatment success rate for TB when people actually access care. So why did 1.23 million people still die from TB in 2024? (WHO) 🧵
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March 24th marked #WorldTBDay. The theme: "Yes! We can end TB." Here's what the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 says we're up against 🧵

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Africa trains doctors and nurses, then watches them leave. What do you think is the most urgent fix for Africa's health worker retention crisis?
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Africa bears 25% of the world's disease burden, yet has only 3% of the world's health workers.🧵

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Something worth noticing amid the healthcare funding crisis one year later is that African governments are not just waiting. Can domestic financing realistically close the gap?🧵 #HealthFinancing #HealthSovereignty #USAID #GlobalHealthOtherwise

"Instead of a careful handover, we're being pushed off a cliff."
~ Kate Rees, epidemiologist, Anova Health Institute, South Africa

The quote says everything about where Africa's HIV response stands right now. We are now about one year after the US aid freeze 🧵
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