Rotimi Sankore

Africa’s critical health workforce shortage is arguably the most serious obstacle to implementing global and African health frameworks and universal primary health care across the continent.

In the context of Africa’s present health crisis, only people suffering from policy blindness can fail to see that Africa’s survival as a continent depends on going beyond merely declaring emergencies, and actually financing and implementing universal primary health care (PHC).

Having had the foresight to make meeting the MDGs of “Water and Sanitation” the theme of the 2008 mid year AU Summit, and even earlier establishing the African Ministerial Conference on Water, member states did not visibly deliver on any significant outcomes that African citizens - of the 33 coun

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