The 4th International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2025), held in Durban under the theme “Moving Towards Self-Reliance to Achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Health Security in Africa,” was more than a gathering, it was a continental reckoning. Across four powerful days, delegates called for a new era of health sovereignty anchored in primary health care … [Read more...] about Financing the Future of Health: Lessons from CPHIA 2025 and the Call for Action
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The Looming Crisis in Community Health: The Impact of the US Foreign Aid Freeze on Community Health Worker Programs
In the last few weeks, US foreign assistance has come under attack by the Trump administration, with Elon Musk and his team effectively shutting down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and freezing foreign aid. USAID sent stop work orders to all its contractors at the end of January 2025, leading to a halt in life-saving services across the world. … [Read more...] about The Looming Crisis in Community Health: The Impact of the US Foreign Aid Freeze on Community Health Worker Programs
Updates on Community Health and Primary Health Care – December 2024
Henry B. Perry, III, MD, PhD, MPH is a Senior Associate in the Health Systems Program of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He joined Hopkins in 2009; his career prior to that has included stints working with Future Generations, Curamericas Global, ICDDR,B, the BASICS Project in Bangladesh, and … [Read more...] about Updates on Community Health and Primary Health Care – December 2024