Africa: African Health Financing Faces Governance Crisis, Not Just Funding Gap: [allAfrica] Despite spending billions on health every year, many African health systems remain underfunded and heavily dependent on external assistance. Then, African leaders adopted the Abuja Declaration, which pledged to allocate at least 15% of their national budgets to health care. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRRjVq #AfricanHealth #HealthFinancing #AbujaDeclaration #HealthGovernance #HealthcareFunding

Africa: African Countries Still Underfunding Health By As Much As 50%: [IPS] Nairobi -- The majority of African countries are yet to commit 15 percent of their GDP to funding the health sector, despite the growing disease burden weighing down the continent and two decades after the coming into force of the Abuja declaration on health sector funding. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKLTSf #HealthFunding #Africa #AbujaDeclaration #GDP #Healthcare