How the State can partner with private sector on healthcare

While service coverage has improved in the last 20 years, the proportion of people facing financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending has increased. [iStockphoto]

With most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa still struggling to provide affordable healthcare, it is increasingly evident that traditional health provision models are no longer tenable.

Based as they are principally on public financing, which is supplemented by charity and philanthropy, Universal Health Coverage (UHC) demands involvement of more actors, particularly the private sector, to help bolster health systems.