Story by Ian Zvoma, News Editor
THE Pan-African Parliament (PAP) has drawn the continent’s attention towards increasing domestic health financing, based on lessons learnt from over-reliance on the West.
This emerged during a joint PAP committee meeting on Health and Gender, which is being chaired by Zimbabwe’s Honourable Elizabeth Masuku in Midrand, South Africa this Wednesday.
With the focus on health issues affecting the continent and health sovereignty, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) highlighted some of the major health interventions on the continent whose impact is being reduced by limited funding.
The emphasis is on financing health security through public health care.
The joint committee meeting is also looking at evidence-based research on the status of Neonatal and Maternal Mortality in Africa.
