Kenya urged to fund healthcare through local resources

Kenya must stop reliance on donor funding if the country is to build strong health systems. This was one of the messages at the recent 'Third International Conference on Financing and Development' in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which challenged Kenya and other African countries to find innovative ways to raise resources for health.

The management of major diseases continues to be heavily reliant on foreign donors, leaving big unfunded gaps in efforts to save the lives of Kenyans who die of preventable and treatable diseases.