After Accra, Africa’s Health Sovereignty Needs Receipts

Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson, Director of Health Financing for Africa at the ONE Campaign, argues that Africa’s health sovereignty will only become real when summit pledges translate into budget releases, functioning services and public accountability. At the African Union’s Extraordinary Summit on Health in Accra, I kept having one uncomfortable thought: I have heard this before. The words were true. Africa must finance more of its own health systems. Primary health care must be stronger.…