Nairobi, April 3, 2025 (AFP) - 'Unprecedented crisis' in Africa healthcare: report

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2025-04-03

Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the continent faces "an unprecedented financing crisis" that could lead to between two to four million additional deaths annually. Members of the African Union pledged in 2001 to allocate at least 15 percent of national budgets to health, but only three countries -- Rwanda, Botswana and Cabo Verde -- have consistently met or exceeded the target, the CDC said in a new repo......

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