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The World Health Organization (WHO) has a 45% budget gap for the year 2026-2027, and this is a perfect example of a sovereignty problem in Africa's global health ecosystem🧵
#WHO #HealthFinancing #HealthSovereignty #GlobalHealthOtherwiseMedia

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WHO: https://t.co/wYE7eV4CVd
University of Oxford: https://t.co/w7UoDmwLi6

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The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has just been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.🧵
#Ebola #DRC #AfricaHealth #PandemicPreparedness #GlobalHealthOtherwiseMedia

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This is exactly the scenario pandemic preparedness frameworks are built for. The question is whether those frameworks, and their financing, will hold.

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Source: WHO: https://t.co/Dnx3dh1yWO

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"Every resolution you adopt only has value when it changes what happens in a clinic, in a community, or in a household." ~ Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during the 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79), Geneva 🧵
#WHA79 #GlobalHealth #AfricaHealth #GlobalHealthOtherwiseMedia

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The clinic. The community. The household.

That is where accountability and impact are measured. Not in Geneva.

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What recent health story has stayed with you the most?

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The past few weeks has taught us one thing above everything else - Africa's health vulnerabilities and Africa's economic opportunities are the same story, told from different angles.🧵
#AfricaHealth #GlobalHealthOtherwiseMedia

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The thread running through all of it is the same: Health is the investment that makes everything else possible.
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