Addis Ababa: Health Sector

addis ababa: The Microsoft founder mentioned interventions such as vaccines, safe delivery for mothers and the availability of antibiotic drugs as ways to drastically improve health outcomes, according to The Japan Times. Gates, whose foundation has spent around 15 billion in Africa since 2000, on Saturday took part in the launch of an initiative to increase investment mainly on the part of governments in the health sector. The good news about health is that by spending modest amounts on the prioritized areas, you can get phenomenal benefits, he told AFP on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa. ; You don't have to get all the way to middle-income before you can run a great primary health care system. Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who sparked the initiative, called on African nations to put at least 15 percent of their budgets toward health care. Gates noted that while efforts to improve health care in Africa have cut child mortality and increased life expectancy, the numbers are still quite troubling. In 2016, an average of 7.5 percent of budgets was spent in this sector on the continent, according to AU figures. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.