AHBS 2019 NEW - Africa Health Business Symposium

AHBS IV: 7th - 9th October 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Africa Health Business Symposium, under the theme: Integrating Africa; Bridging the Health Gap focused on private healthcare related firms and their relationships with governments in Africa.Among the key discussion points at the symposium where : universal health coverage, moving from curative to preventive treatment, the menace of counterfeit medication, challenges of trading within Africa, digital health, among other key health related issues affecting the continent.

The Symposium in Numbers

Integrating Africa: Bridging the Health Gap

In her welcome address, H.E Dr. Lia Tadesse noted that it was wonderful to see more than 50 countries and 80 organizations represented in the symposium. She further explained that many countries had started creating effective organizational structures in the form of associations of private sector organizations in order to engage effectively and productively with the government.

Celebrating Our Progress: Building more Bridges

The opening of the first Africa Healthcare Federation (AHF) Summit coloured the first day prior to the start of the Africa Health Business Symposium IV.The Summit lauded the progress that had been made, while also determining a way forward for public and private partnerships in health around the African continent.As a way forward the summit looked at integration: integrating regions, integrating sectors, and integrating systems across the continent.

The Africa Health Business Symposium, under the theme: Integrating Africa: Bridging the Health Gap focused on private healthcare related firms and their relationships with governments in Africa.Among the key discussion points at the symposium where : universal health coverage, moving from curative to preventive treatment, the menace of counterfeit medication, challenges of trading within Africa, digital health, among other key health related issues affecting the continent.