Africa Healthcare

Expanding prepayment is key to universal health coverage

Health insurance schemes hold untapped potential for achieving universal coverage of health services, according to a study of countries in…

12 years ago

Africa Health: RFID to prevent babies theft in Hospitals

AHIN Staff: A South Africa based company Harmonic Group is in negotiation with a South African private hospital about the…

12 years ago

Africa Health: Technology Boost Community Health

By  STEPHEN RWEMBEHO: The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT), has facilitated the work of community health workers in Bugesera District.This…

12 years ago

Africa Health : New technology to reduce pregnancy complications

By: Judith Akolo(KBA): Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in a bid to ensure more women are saved from life threatening events…

12 years ago

Spiralling cost of health care in SA in focus again

By Londiwe Buthelezi: The cost of health care, particularly in the private sector, became the focus of discussions at this year’s…

12 years ago

MCN Foundation provides free web-based healthcare education for Ghana Health Service

AHIN Staff: The use of technology in Africa healthcare is becoming increasingly prominent. Even though   the promised-land is still far…

12 years ago

Mobile Health: Smartphone app to diagnose Pneumonia

By John Tozzi: Pneumonia kills more children than any other cause, according to the World Health Organization. While treatable with antibiotics,…

12 years ago

Ondo State use Mobile phones to Improve Maternal and Child Health

By Ayo Bamgboye (AHIN) Two years after the initiation of  Abiye Safe Motherhood Project and the Mother & Child Hospital…

12 years ago

Gauteng Health pays off suppliers

The Gauteng Health Department has met its deadline to pay off all suppliers by the end of June this year.The…

12 years ago

Africa:Rwanda Cited As Example of Health Financing

BY MARIE-BRIGITTE KABALIRA (Rwanda Focus) The importance of health as prerequisite for sustainable development was highlighted at a high-level Ministerial…

12 years ago