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Why Africa's health sector needs to embrace self-care

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In recent years, an increasing number of development practitioners have proposed that self-care is a cost-effective solution to various health challenges.

The WHO's Self-Care for Health initiative promotes self-care as a key component of health systems, especially for managing non-communicable diseases. On the margins of the Seventy-Sixth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, the Business Council for International Understanding and the Global Self-Care Federation convened a round-table on self-care on May 28, 2024.

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