The World Health Organisation, WHO has pledged to increase support to Africa to enable countries in the region re-align their healthcare services and make strategic shift towards achieving Universal Health Coverage, UHC.
The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matchidiso Moeti, made the pledge in her message to mark the 2019 commemoration of “World Health Day’’ marked on April 7 every year.
The regional director said that with about 100 major recurrence of public health epidemics in the region in 2018, the only way to achieve health security in Africa was the implementation of UHC.
Moeti said that the organisation would therefore support countries in the region to introduce innovative approaches in delivering health services by harnessing the power of the youth in the region.
She said that the organisation would also put in place innovative systems by introducing digital solutions in the delivery of universal health coverage for people of the region.
Moeti said that in addition to supporting the re-alignment, the organisation would help build the evidence base around what works and what does not work for countries in the region towards developing and achieving UHC.
