Facts you didn’t know about digital health rights?

Here is a list of things about digital health rights that you didn’t know People often don’t own their health data. Instead, hospitals, doctors, or healthcare institutions usually retain ownership rights, limiting patient control. Achieving seamless integration of health data across different systems and platforms is a complex task, hindered…
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Why Africans are Rejecting the Covid-19 Vaccine

Since the mid-20th century, millions of Africans have died from diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, and tetanus—diseases that used to be commonplace in the developing world. However, while these diseases have been virtually eradicated in Europe and North America, they continue to ravage the continent of Africa. In an…
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ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND HEALTH WORKER SHORTAGES & MOBILITY

Human resources for health team https://www.wemos.nl/en/on-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-health-worker-shortages-mobility/ Reflections on the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel This week, the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) is convening virtually to deliberate on core global health related challenges facing its Member States. Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, a key challenge…
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Health Service Delivery Systems in Uganda

Health services in Uganda are at risk in the COVID-19 outbreak through various mechanisms. Clinicians and direct care givers of COVID-19 patients have a disproportionately higher mortality than the general age-adjusted population. Closure of logistics-related workplaces and transport services interrupts supply lines. Travel bans and reduction in public transportation limit…
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Challenge PPPs

Challenging the Role of the Private Sector in Global Health: A Civil Society perspective on “Public Private Partnerships in Health” In November, we analyzed the Private sector in national and global health with other CSOs in Kampala during the Kampala Initiative workshop on ‘How to advance cooperation and solidarity within and beyond…
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